Risālaẗ fī ḏikr al-aflāk wa-ḥalaqihā wa-ʿadad ḥarakātihā wa-miqdār masīrihā

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Risālah fī dhikr al-aflāk wa-ḥalaqihā wa-ʿadad ḥarakātihā wa-miqdār masīrihā

Title (arabic)	رسالة في ذكر الأفلاك وحلقها وعدد حركاتها ومقدار مسيرها
Title (translit)	Risālah fī dhikr al-aflāk wa-ḥalaqihā wa-ʿadad ḥarakātihā wa-miqdār masīrihā
Alias	Mā jamaʿa Thābit ibn Qurraẗ al-Ḥarrānī fī tarkīb al-aflāk wa-ḥalaqihā wa-ʿadadihā wa-ʿadad kull ḥarakaẗ wa-ʾl-kawākib fīhā wa-mablaġ masīrihā wa-ʾl-jihāt allatī tataḥarraku ilayhā Risālaẗ fī ḏikr al-aflāk wa-ḥalaqihā wa-ʿadad ḥarakātihā wa-miqdār masīrihā
Author	Abū al-Ḥasan Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī al-Ṣābiʾ
Language	Arabic
Subject	Astronomy: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam
Text type	Abridgement (epitome)
Version of	The Almagest
Notes	Absent from Thābit's work on Ptolemaic astronomy are topics associated with hayʾat al-arḍ, such as the seven climes.
ismi_id	61157

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P. 54 (no. 103), A13.

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1984. Matematicheskie Traktati. Nauchnoye Nasledstvo. Eds. Boris Rozenfeld and al, et. Vol. 8. Moscow.

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