Publication Date
13 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 52v-69r
Record ID
vdc_100023602345.0x000004
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
13 Friday I 1198 (AH, Hijri)
Notes
Aristarchus σελήνης; in the two bodies of the two lights and after them)
The diagrams are collected on a fold out (f. 69r) following the text. At the end of the text is a collation note in Persian dated 13 Jumādá I without mention of the year (f. 68r), probably 1198 (4 April 1784).
Contents:
Begins (f. 52v, lines 2-4):
The book of Aristarchus on the two bodies of luminaries and their seventeen figures
In the book, we posit that the moon accepts light from the sun and that the Earth's destiny
When zodiac astronomy determines the center and point...
Ends (f. 68v, lines 5-9):
...The ratio of H B to L is equal
Smaller than 65 to 116 means a ratio of 15 to 4, and in detail a ratio
h i to i b is smaller than the ratio 12 to
14 means a ratio of 3 to one
That's what we wanted
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Edition:
Aristarchus of Samos,
Kitāb fī jiramay al-nayyirayn
, 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, translation and study of original Greek text:
Heath, Thomas,
Aristarchus of Samos, the Ancient Copernicus: A History of Greek Astonomy to Aristarchus, together with Aristarchus's Treatise on the Size and Distance of the Sun and Moon
(Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1913)
