Treatise on the making of astronomical instruments :

Title	Treatise on the making of astronomical instruments :
Subject	Astronomical instruments., Astronomy, Arab., Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /Ann Arbor.
Type	kitap
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	1 v. ([264] p.) : ill. ; 19 cm
Library:	HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID	002601793
Notes	Contains tables and diagrams of the markings on astronomical instruments. Text rubricated; marginal notes in hand of copyist and others. Microfilm available in repository. Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: on p. [264], notice of purchase, with no name: milk al-shir[ā]ʼ al-ṣaḥīḥ al-sharʻī.. "Said by the dealer from whom it was purchased to be a rare work on astronomical instruments by Abū Jaʻfar Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, al-Ṭūsī, 587/1201-672/1274. No such treatise by Naṣīr al-Dīn is listed among his works by Suter or Brockelmann, and the author's name does not appear in this manuscript.... The beginning [is] lost ... it is apparent that many other folios have been either lost or misplaced." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945. Instructions on how to make astrolabes and other astronomical manuscripts, and how to use them in astronomical observations.

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Treatise on the making of astronomical instruments :

Subject Astronomical instruments., Astronomy, Arab., Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /Ann Arbor.

Type kitap

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions 1 v. ([264] p.) : ill. ; 19 cm

Library HathiTrust Digital Library

Record ID 002601793

Notes Contains tables and diagrams of the markings on astronomical instruments. Text rubricated; marginal notes in hand of copyist and others. Microfilm available in repository. Purchased in Cairo, 1933/34. Owner's mark: on p. [264], notice of purchase, with no name: milk al-shir[ā]ʼ al-ṣaḥīḥ al-sharʻī.. "Said by the dealer from whom it was purchased to be a rare work on astronomical instruments by Abū Jaʻfar Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, al-Ṭūsī, 587/1201-672/1274. No such treatise by Naṣīr al-Dīn is listed among his works by Suter or Brockelmann, and the author's name does not appear in this manuscript.... The beginning [is] lost ... it is apparent that many other folios have been either lost or misplaced." Cataloging by Elinor M. Husselman, 1945. Instructions on how to make astrolabes and other astronomical manuscripts, and how to use them in astronomical observations.