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al-Jadwal al-āfāqī

Title (arabic)

الجدول الآفاقي

Title (translit)

al-Jadwal al-āfāqī

Alias

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

Author

Language

Arabic

Subject

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?).

ismi_id

73432

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.