‘Ilm al-’Asterlab

Name: ‘Ilm al-’Asterlab
Author: al-Jazarî, Haydar ibn as-Sayyid 'Abd ar-Raḥmān al-Husaynî - author

Title	‘Ilm al-’Asterlab
Author	al-Jazarî, Haydar ibn as-Sayyid 'Abd ar-Raḥmān al-Husaynî - author
Publication Date:	1150
Type	Book
Language	Arabic
Digital	No
Manuscript	No
Library:	Pompeu Fabra University Library
Record ID	cdi_europeana_collections_9200126_EB1674A0892A7DD9FBBF8EEE34C9539561F8D24D
Date	1150
Sample Text	Paper and leather covers, binding corrupted; Neskhi script, black ink. Korice od kartona presvučene kožom. Rukopis je ušiven. Neshi. Rukopis pisan crnim mastilom. The earliest surviving Arabic astrolabe treatises are from the seventh and eighth centuries and are often translations of earlier Greek or Syriac texts. Eighth century literary references from Baghdad and Damascus indicate that by this time the use of the astrolabe was widespread throughout the Arab world. Land under Arab control stretched from North Africa and Spain to India, enabling a wide range of astronomical influences to be combined. The early ninth-century tables of al-Farghânî list the radii of the circles on the plate of the astrolabe for each degree of latitude. These simplified the process of astrolabe construction by removing the need for mathematical calculation of these values, indicating that astrolabes were being manufactured in substantial numbers since the effort involved in producing the tables would have been considerable. Najstariji sačuvani arapski traktati o astrolabu potiču iz sedmog i šestog veka i često su prevodi ranijih grčkih i sirijskih tekstova. Literatura iz osmog veka iz Bagdada i Damaska ukazuje na to da je do tog perioda korišćene atrolaba bilo široko rasprostranjeno po arapskom svetu. Teritorija pod arapskom vlašću prostirala se od sveren Afrike i Španije sve do Indije što je davalo mogućnosti da se kombinuje širok raspon astronomskih uticaja. Farganijeve tablice iz devetog veka daju listu poluprečnika krugova na astrolabu za svaki ugao geografske širine. To je uprostilo proces konstrukcije astrolaba pošto je otklonjena potreba da se te vrednosti matematički izračunaju ukazujući na to da su astrolabi proizvođeni u velikom broju budući da bi bio potreban veliki napor za proizvodnju tablica.
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‘Ilm al-’Asterlab

Author al-Jazarî, Haydar ibn as-Sayyid 'Abd ar-Raḥmān al-Husaynî - author

Publication Date 1150

Type Book

Language Arabic

Digital No

Manuscript No

Library Pompeu Fabra University Library

Record ID cdi_europeana_collections_9200126_EB1674A0892A7DD9FBBF8EEE34C9539561F8D24D

Date 1150

Sample Text Paper and leather covers, binding corrupted; Neskhi script, black ink. Korice od kartona presvučene kožom. Rukopis je ušiven. Neshi. Rukopis pisan crnim mastilom. The earliest surviving Arabic astrolabe treatises are from the seventh and eighth centuries and are often translations of earlier Greek or Syriac texts. Eighth century literary references from Baghdad and Damascus indicate that by this time the use of the astrolabe was widespread throughout the Arab world. Land under Arab control stretched from North Africa and Spain to India, enabling a wide range of astronomical influences to be combined. The early ninth-century tables of al-Farghânî list the radii of the circles on the plate of the astrolabe for each degree of latitude. These simplified the process of astrolabe construction by removing the need for mathematical calculation of these values, indicating that astrolabes were being manufactured in substantial numbers since the effort involved in producing the tables would have been considerable. Najstariji sačuvani arapski traktati o astrolabu potiču iz sedmog i šestog veka i često su prevodi ranijih grčkih i sirijskih tekstova. Literatura iz osmog veka iz Bagdada i Damaska ukazuje na to da je do tog perioda korišćene atrolaba bilo široko rasprostranjeno po arapskom svetu. Teritorija pod arapskom vlašću prostirala se od sveren Afrike i Španije sve do Indije što je davalo mogućnosti da se kombinuje širok raspon astronomskih uticaja. Farganijeve tablice iz devetog veka daju listu poluprečnika krugova na astrolabu za svaki ugao geografske širine. To je uprostilo proces konstrukcije astrolaba pošto je otklonjena potreba da se te vrednosti matematički izračunaju ukazujući na to da su astrolabi proizvođeni u velikom broju budući da bi bio potreban veliki napor za proizvodnju tablica.

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