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al-Jadwal al-āfāqī
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الجدول الآفاقي
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| Title (translit) |
al-Jadwal al-āfāqī
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الجدول الآفاقي
Tables of auxiliary functions for solving the problems of spherical astronomy for all latitudes
كتاب الدائر وفضل الدائر والسمت من عرض درجة إلى عرض خمسين درجة
Kitāb al-dāʾir wa-faḍl al-dāʾir wa-al-samt min ʿarḍ darajaẗ ilỳ ʿarḍ ḫamsīn darajaẗ
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Arabic
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| Notes |
Universal auxiliary tables for solving problems in spherical astronomy; treatise in 8 chapters (bābs) plus short introduction; alias title (Kitāb al-dāʾir wa-faḍl al-dāʾir wa-al-samt min ʿarḍ darajaẗ ilỳ ʿarḍ ḫamsīn darajaẗ) is from Escurial catalogue. King (Synchrony, 1:362) lists another witness as Beirut PC (personal copy?). |
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73432
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Manuscript Witnesses
13 witnesses:Literature References
Rozenfeld, Boris, and Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu. 2003. Mathematicians, Astronomers and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilisation and Their Works (7th-19th c.). Istanbul: Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture.
P. 258 (no. 764), A1.
Van Brummelen, Glen. 1991. “The Numerical Structure of Al-Khalīlī’s Auxiliary Tables”. Physis 28: 667-97.
King, David. 1986. A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns; The American Research Center in Egypt.
P. 64 (C37).
King, David. 1973. “Al-Khalīlī’s Auxiliary Tables for Solving Problems of Spherical Astronomy”. Journal for the History of Astronomy 4: 99-110.