TEXT

Kitāb al-shakl al-mudawwar al-mustaṭīl

Title (arabic)

كتاب الشكل المدوّر المستطيل

Title (translit)

Kitāb al-shakl al-mudawwar al-mustaṭīl

Alias

Kitāb al-šakl al-mudawwar al-mustaṭīl

Author

Language

Arabic

Subject

Notes

(From MAMS2): Al-Sijzī in his al-Madkhal ilá ʿilm al-handasah, which is on conic sections, mentions that Banū Mūsá's treatise was about the ellipse, and that in it, the method of an ellipse based on constancy of the sum of focal radius-vectors of its points (gardener's construction) was used.

ismi_id

88842

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P. 35 (no. 74), M5.

Ibn al-Nadīm, Muḥammad. 1871. Kitāb Al-Fihrist, Ed. Gustav Flügel. 2 vol. Leipzig: Vogel.

P. 271.

Woepcke, Franz. 1855. Recherches Sur L’histoire Des Sciences mathématiques Chez Les Orientaux d’après Des traités inédits Arabes Et Persans. Paris: Imprimerie impériale.

P. 223.