TEXT

al-Risālah al-Muẓaffariyyah fī al-ʿamal [al-adāh] al-musammāt bi-al-ṣafīḥah al-jawzahariyyah

Title (arabic)

الرسالة المظفّريّة في العمل [الأداة] المسمّات بالصفيحة الجوزهريّة

Title (translit)

al-Risālah al-Muẓaffariyyah fī al-ʿamal [al-adāh] al-musammāt bi-al-ṣafīḥah al-jawzahariyyah

Author

Language

Arabic

Subject

Notes

Fārisī mentions this title in his introduction to his “Nihāyat al-idrāk,” adding that he invented the instrument called "ṣafīḥa jawzahariya" for determining lunar eclipses.

ismi_id

98686

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King, David. 1983. Mathematical Astronomy In Medieval Yemen: A Bibliographical Survey. Malibu: Undena Publications.

P.p. 25-6 (6.5).

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. 220 (no. 608), A7.