Author
the astronomer
Publication Date
17 Friday I 1198 (AH, Hijri)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IO Islamic 923, ff 1v-10r
Record ID
vdc_100023602345.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
17 Friday I 1198 (AH, Hijri)
Notes
Arabic version of the
This space is moved
(Περὶ κινουμένης σφαίρας;The Book of the Moving Ball) by the astronomer, mathematician and geographer Autolycus of Pitane (Αὐτόλυκος ὁ Πιταναῖος; Eulogus; fl. 300 BC), translation from the Greek revised by Thābit ibn Qurrah (Thābit ibn Qurrah; d. 901).
The diagrams are collected on a fold out (f. 10r) following the text. At the end of the text is a collation note in Persian dated 17 Jumādá I without mention of the year (f. 9v), probably 1198 (8 April 1784).
Contents:
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-4):
Editing of the book The Moving Ball by Autologus was fixed by Thabit and it is an article
One and twelve figures released the point that moves in a modified motion
It is the one that proceeds in times of equal magnitudes that are similar
Ends (f. 9v, lines 2-4):
It is a perpendicular on the surface of a circle B, E, and the surface is what is next to this and behind
Just the center of the ball, so each of the two circles is ABC, H, and E
B E is great and that's what we wanted
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Edition:
Autolycus,
Kitāb al-kurah al-mutaḥarrikah
, in
Majmūʿ al-rasāʼil ḥarrarahā Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī
(Ḥaydarābād al-Dakkan: Dāʼirat al-Maʿārif al-ʿUthmānīyah, 1358-1359 [1939-1940])
Edition of original Greek text:
Autolyci de sphaera quae movetur liber. De ortibus et occasibus libri duo una cum scholiis antiquis e libris manu scriptis edidit
, Friedrich Otto Hultsch, ed., (Liepzig: Teubner, 1885)
Edition and translation of original Greek text:
The Books of Autolykos. On a Moving Sphere, and On Risings and Settings
, Frans Bruin and Alexander Vondjidis, eds. and trans., (Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1971)