Author
Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī
Publication Date
29 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 1057 (AH, Hijri)
Type
Book
Language
Persian
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Add MS 23569, ff 78v-103r
Record ID
vdc_100025652531.0x000004
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
29 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 1057 (AH, Hijri)
Notes
Treatise on the use of the
astrolabe
Ancient instrument for astronomical observations.
in twenty chapters by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tusi, d. 1274).
This copy was completed on 29 Dhū al-Qa'dah 1057/26 December 1647 (see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, f. 103r, lines 9-11, transcribed below).
Begins (f. 78v, lines 4-6):
This summary is not included in the knowledge of astrolabe
The twenty chapters of the first chapter in the titles of Alat and
Astrolabe lines and circles...
Ends (f. 103r, lines 6-8):
... on most of the astrolabes these planets
Whoever knows this should do it so that he does not make a mistake in it
Let it be enough in this regard, and by God I know the truth of things
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 103r, lines 9-11):
Al-Risalah al-Sharifah in Salakh Shahr
Dhi al-Ugda al-Haram year 1057
Hijri
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Studies:
Ragep, F. Jamil, 'Ṭūsī: Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī', in
The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
, Thomas Hockey et al., eds., (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 1153-55
Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu,
Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th–19th c.)
, (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003) pp. 211–219
