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Ḥarakat al-aflāk
| Title (arabic) |
حركة الأفلاك
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| Title (translit) |
Ḥarakat al-aflāk
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| Alias |
Kitāb ḥarakaẗ al-aflāk
Kitāb al-hayʾa
Kitāb al-hayʾah
Kitāb ḥarakat al-falak al-ūlá
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| Author |
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| Language |
Arabic
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| Subject |
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| Notes |
An account of the Palmyra-Raqqa scientific expedition in Syria to determine the size of the Earth. The exact same passage is contained in another more extensive anonymous treatise entitled Hayʾat al-aflāk that has been attributed to Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (d. ca. 912), which see. |
| ismi_id |
78592
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Manuscript Witnesses
2 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. 35-36 (no. 74), A3.
Saliba, George. 1994. “Early Arabic Critique of Ptolemaic Cosmology: A Ninth-Century Text on the Motion of the Celestial Spheres”. Journal for the History of Astronomy 25: 115-41.
P. 119. Saliba attributes this early hayʾa work to
Qusṭā.
Ragep, F. Jamil. 1993. Nasīr al‐Dīn al‐Ṭūsī’s Memoir on Astronomy (al‐Tadhkira Fī ʿilm al‐hayʾa). 2 vol. New York: Springer‐Verlag.
2:502-10. Ragep provides the passage on the expedition (both the Arabic edition and an Eng. translation) based on Damascus Asad Ẓāhiriyya 4489.
Ibn al-Nadīm, Muḥammad. 1871. Kitāb Al-Fihrist, Ed. Gustav Flügel. 2 vol. Leipzig: Vogel.
P. 271.