Six Essays from the Book of Commentaries on Euclid
(ستة مقالات من كتاب تحرير الاوقليدس)

Name: Six Essays from the Book of Commentaries on Euclid
Author: Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274

Title	Six Essays from the Book of Commentaries on Euclid
Title Original	ستة مقالات من كتاب تحرير الاوقليدس
Author	Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274
Publication Date:	1824
Publication Place	- [publisher not identified]
Type	Book
Language	Arabic
Digital	No
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	1 online resource.
Library:	Library of Congress
Library Asset ID	2021666187
Record ID	22053415
Date	1824
Sample Text	Naseer al-Din (or al-Naseer) al-Tusi (1201--74 AD, 597--672 AH) was a Muslim Persian polymath. He was born in Tus, Khorasan, in present-day Iran. Al-Tusi witnessed the great invasion of the Islamic empire by the Mongols, whom he later joined. He was said to have been in the company of Hulegu Khan when the latter destroyed the Abbasid capital of Baghdad in 1258 AD. Al-Tusi, already a well-known scientist, later convinced Hulegu Khan to construct an observatory to facilitate the establishment of accurate astronomical tables for better astrological predictions. Beginning in 1259, the Rasad Khaneh observatory was built in Azerbaijan, west of Maragheh, the capital of the Ilkhanate Empire. Based on the observations made in that observatory, al-Tusi constructed very accurate tables of planetary movements. This work consists of six essays from al-Tusi's book Kitab usul al-hindasa wa al-hisab (The book of the origins of geometry and arithmetic, also known as Commentaries on Euclid), an illustrated treatise on the Greek mathematician's work.
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Six Essays from the Book of Commentaries on Euclid

(ستة مقالات من كتاب تحرير الاوقليدس)

Author Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274

Publication Date 1824

Publication Place - [publisher not identified]

Type Book

Language Arabic

Digital No

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions 1 online resource.

Library Library of Congress

Library Asset ID 2021666187

Record ID 22053415

Date 1824

Sample Text Naseer al-Din (or al-Naseer) al-Tusi (1201--74 AD, 597--672 AH) was a Muslim Persian polymath. He was born in Tus, Khorasan, in present-day Iran. Al-Tusi witnessed the great invasion of the Islamic empire by the Mongols, whom he later joined. He was said to have been in the company of Hulegu Khan when the latter destroyed the Abbasid capital of Baghdad in 1258 AD. Al-Tusi, already a well-known scientist, later convinced Hulegu Khan to construct an observatory to facilitate the establishment of accurate astronomical tables for better astrological predictions. Beginning in 1259, the Rasad Khaneh observatory was built in Azerbaijan, west of Maragheh, the capital of the Ilkhanate Empire. Based on the observations made in that observatory, al-Tusi constructed very accurate tables of planetary movements. This work consists of six essays from al-Tusi's book Kitab usul al-hindasa wa al-hisab (The book of the origins of geometry and arithmetic, also known as Commentaries on Euclid), an illustrated treatise on the Greek mathematician's work.

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