Author
Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan known as Ibn al-Haytham
Publication Date
2 Feb 1646 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Place
Leiden -
Type
Book
Language
ara,lat
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Physical Dimensions
250 x 150 mm
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Sloane MS 3034
Record ID
vdc_100000000653.0x0002dc
Library Location
British Library: Western Manuscripts
Date
2 Feb 1646 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
A short treatise describing a geometrical method for precisely determining latitude by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan known as Ibn al-Haytham (Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Hasan known as Ibn al-Haytham, d c 1039). The Arabic text is accompanied by a Latin translation produced by Jacobus Golius (1596-1667) in 1643 (f. 7v).
The text was copied on 2 February 1646 in Leiden by Nicolaus Petri of Aleppo (Naqlaus ibn Peter; see title page, f. 1r). The Arabic text was presumably copied from the Leiden MS Or. 14 (see Witkam, Inventory of the Oriental Manuscripts of the Library of the University of Leiden, vol. 1, 2007, pp. 19-20).
The title page of the Arabic text (f. 1r) reads:
2 Feb. st. by. 1646
Leidae hoc described
Nicholas Petri
Aleppensis
cuius ms. the additional version is at
clariss. viro Dno James
Goliath, and to describe me
iuxta specimen Dni Samuelis
Keihelii mathematics
in the ingenuity
The title page to the Latin text (f. 7v) reads:
Tractatus
Hazeni Hey-
temidae Arabis
From inventory accuracy
Elevations
Poly
ex Arabic in Latin-
num conversus a
clariss. viro
James Goliath
Professor. mathematics. in Aca-
they. Lugd. Bat.
Anno 1643
The texts have two diagrams each (cf. 5v, 6v, 10v, and 11v).
Contents:
1) Ibn al-Haytham (Ibn al-Haytham),
Maqālah fī istikhrāj irtifā‘ al-quṭb ‘alá ghāyat al-taḥqīq
(Article in the Extraction of the Pole on the End of Research; ff. 2r-7r)
2) Jacobus Golius,
Tractatus Hazeni Heitemidae arabis of accuracy invenienda polite elevation
(pp. 7v-12r).
Arabic text begins (f. 2r, lines 2-6):
Article by Hassan ibn al-Hussein (!) ibn al-Haytham on the withdrawal of the pole
At the end of the investigation, there is no one of the heavenly meanings of the term
Please in the answer to use the pole rise above the horizon
The place of receipt and there is no existence of celestial movements except with instruments and verification
Place it on the horizon.
Arabic text ends (f. 7r, lines 8-17):
... Falsaaat alti tokhz min albankam
Become a researcher and the watches that come out of relaxation and the place of the cockroach
Unreliable philosopher who spends at the expense of the rise of the star
He is not a researcher nor a trustee of the atmosphere that is the road
To the knowledge of the elevation of the pole
The end of the investigation and that's what we mean
In this article it is mentioned
And praise be to Allah
العالمين
Them
Latin text begins (f. 8r, lines 1-7):
Heitemidae of the Al-
hazeni Tractactus of Accuracy
poly elevation inventory.
Astronomical species, which qui-
they per observations investigated solent, vix utlae (!)
quae ad hoc ipsuim not required Altitude Po-
li ...
Latin text ends (f. 12r, lines 21-26):
Cum itaque locus stellae certus and accuratus have nequeat, nec
time ex altitude stellae computandum certò ac praecisè
defined potest. Atque haec quidem ad cognoscendam ac-
curatiorem Elevation Poli nobis declares
fuerunt.
Finish
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
Cureton, William and Charles Rieu,
Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens
(London: The British Museum 1846-71), Item 404, p. 191
ilgili birincil kaynaklar
Leiden, MS Or. 14
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Sezgin, Fuat,
Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums
, vol. 5 (Leiden: Brill, 1974). p. 366
Witkam, Jan Just,
Inventory of the Oriental Manuscripts of the Library of the University of Leiden
, vol. 1 (Leiden: Ter Lugt: 2007) pp. 19-20
