Author
Abū Sahl Wayjan ibn Rustam al-Kūhī
Publication Date
1198 (AH, Hijri)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IO Islamic 461, ff 189v-191r
Record ID
vdc_100025776458.0x000005
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
1198 (AH, Hijri)
Notes
Short geometrical treatise by Abū Sahl Wayjan ibn Rustam al-Kūhī
The text contains one diagram, which is presented on a fold out (f. 190r).
Contents:
Beginnings (f. 189v, lines 2-):
We make the two lines A B C to surround angle B and complete the parallelogram surface B D
We work on it as a circle, ABC, and we work on point B as a hyperbola that is not linear
A D D C...
Ends (f. 191r, lines 7-9):
...It has been shown that the ratio of B C to E D
As the ratio of E D to E T and as the ratio of E T to A B and so on
What we wanted to show
Erişim Koşulları
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Seçilmiş kaynakça
Studies:
Sezgin, Fuat,
Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums
, vol. 5 (Leiden: Brill, 1974). pp 318
Berggren, Len, 'Kūhī: Abū Sahl Wījan ibn Rustam [Wustam] al-Kūhī [al-Qūhī]' in
The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
, Thomas Hockey et al., eds., (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 659