Author
Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham
Publication Date
16th century (CE, Gregorian)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IO Islamic 1270, ff 56v-69v
Record ID
vdc_100023697729.0x00000b
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
16th century (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
Treatise of the mensuration of parabolic solids by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham (Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham; d. ca 1040).
The text contains five diagrams.
Begins (f. 56v, line 3):
Every statement and every composition has a mover for its speaker and author. He is the one who moved him to say what he said and compose what he composed.
Erişim Koşulları
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Seçilmiş kaynakça
Edition:
Alhazen, 'Fī al-misāḥah', in
Majmūʻ al-rasāʼil li-Abī ʻAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham al-Baṣrī
(Ḥaydarābād al-Dakan: Dāʼirat al-Maʻārif al-ʻUthmānīyah, 1357 [1938])
Study:
Sezgin, Fuat,
Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums
, vol. 5 (Leiden: Brill, 1974), p. 358-74