Hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam

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Hayʾat al-ʿālam

Title (arabic)	هيئة العالم
Title (translit)	Hayʾat al-ʿālam
Alias	Maqālaẗ fī hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam كتاب في هيئة العالم مقالة في هيئة العالم
Author	Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham al-Baṣrī al-Miṣrī
Language	Arabic
Subject	Astronomy: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam
Text type	First-order prose composition (or compilation) [matn]
ismi_id	67618

Manuscript Witnesses

4 witnesses:

Hayʾat al-ʿālam_Kastamonu_İl Halk Millet (Kastamonu)_NONE (Kastamonu İl Halk Millet)_2298

Hayʾat al-ʿālam_London_British Library_IO Islamic_1270

Hayʾat al-ʿālam_Princeton_Princeton University_Garrett_1168Y

Hayʾat al-ʿālam_Rabat_Al-Khizāna al-Malakiyya (Royal Palace, Rabat)_Al-Khizāna al-Ḥasaniyya Library (Bibliothèque Royale, Rabat)_8691

Literature References

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P. 136 (no. 328), A16.

Langermann, Y.Tzvi. 1990. Ibn Al-Haytham’s On the Configuration of the World. New York, NY: Garland.

Includes a list of Hebrew trans. (pp. 34-40); Latin trans. (pp. 40-41).

Mancha, José. 1990. “Ibn Al-Haytham’s Homocentric Epicycles in Latin Astronomical Texts of the XIVth and XVth Centuries”. Centaurus 3 (1): 70-89.

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Vol. 2, pp. 1089-1091.

Strohmaier, Gotthard. 1975. “The Nature of the Supralunar World: From Anaxagoras to Ibn Al-Haitham”. Studia Copernicana 13: 17-20.

Gillispie, Charles, and Abdelhamid Sabra. 1972. “Ibn Al-Haytham”. In Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 6:189-210. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.

P. 205, III 1.

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Pp. 63-70.

Vallicrosa, José. 1942. Las Traducciones Orientales En Los Manuscritos De La Biblioteca Catedral De Toledo. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigationes Científicas.

Pp. 285-312.

Kohl, K. 1922. “Über Den Aufbau Der Welt Nach Ibn Al-Haitham”. Sitzungsberichte Der Physikalisch-Medicinischen Societät Zu Erlangen 54-55: 140-79.

Steinschneider, Moritz. 1883. “Supplément á La ‘Notice Sur Un Ouvrage inédit d’Ibn Haitham”. Bullettino Di Bibliografia E Di Storia Delle Scienze Matematiche E Fisiche 16: 505–513.

Steinschneider, Moritz. 1881. “Notice Sur Un Ouvrage Astronomique inédit d’lbn Haitham”. Bullettino Di Bibliografia E Di Storia Delle Scienze Matematiche E Fisiche 14: 721–736.

Contains list of Hebrew and Latin MSS.