Author
Euclid (author) | Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ṭūsī (editor) | Warren Hastings (editor)
Publication Date
1784/1784
Publication Place
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Qatar National Library
Subject
Spherical astronomy -- Early works to 1800 | more | less
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
ff. 57v-86r
Library
Digital Library of the Middle East
Library Asset ID
81055/vdc_100023285040.0x000003_ar | 81055/vdc_100023285040.0x000003_en | IO Islamic 1249, ff 57v-86r
Record ID
81055%2Fvdc_100023285040.0x000003_dlme
Library Location
British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
Date
1784/1784
Notes
Arabic version of the
Phaenomena(Φαινόμενα; Phenomenology of Astronomy) by the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (Εὐκλείδης; Euclid; fl. 300 BC) presented here in the edition of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 1274). fold out (f. 86r) following the text.Begins (f. 57v, lines 2-4): Euclid's book, The Phenomenology of Astronomy, has twenty-three figures, and in some copies twenty-five figures. The editor of this book says, “No copy of the book has come to me other than an extremely sick copy, most of which is falsified and distorted. Ends (85r, lines 3-6):... the equal parts of the astronomy of the spirit, the animal half, for the time to replace each one is half. The true sphere is greater than in the past. Substituting any arc other than that hemisphere for the apparent hemisphere. The proof and form are like the Colophon (85r, line 6): The book was completed with the help of King Al-Wahhab. Below the colophon is a collation note in Persian dated 10 Jumādá I, without mention of the year. | ff. 57v-86r | more | less
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