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 101r-116v
Record ID
vdc_100023697729.0x00000f
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
16th century (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
Treatise on cosmology 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 is followed by a note that the scribe claims he found appended to this text in his exemplar, which was written by the hand of the author (f. 116r)
Beginnings (f. 101r, lines 3-4):
He said that there are still many educated people who have carefully considered the knowledge of the form and realized it
The facts of existing images of the totality of the world and most of its parts are abstracted from a transmitted statement...
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Study:
Sezgin, Fuat,
Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums
, vol. 5 (Leiden: Brill, 1974), p. 358-74