TEXT

Kitāb fī al-ʿ ilal

Title (arabic)

كتاب في العلل

Title (translit)

Kitāb fī al-ʿ ilal

Alias

Kitāb fī al-ʿ ilal

Author

Language

Arabic

Subject

Notes

Kitāb fī al-ʿilal (Rationales [of astronomical procedures]) aimed at providing mathematical explanations of the computational rules in zījes.
(From MAMS2): It is quoted in al- Bīrūnī's "Kitāb fī ifrād al-maqāl fī amr al- aẓlāl."

ismi_id

81651

Literature References

Pingree, David. 1968. The Thousands Of Abū Maʿshar. London: Warburg Institute.

Pp. 120-123.

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. 16 (no. 11), A3.

Al-Bīrūnī, Abū. 1998. “Kitāb Fī Ifrād Al-Maqāl Fī Amr Al- Aẓlāl”. In Rasāʼiluʼl-Bīrūnī. Islamic Mathematics And Astronomy. Vol. 32.