Work C.1.27
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⟨رسالة في حركة النيّرين ⟨لثابت بن قرّة
Risāla fī Ḥarakat al-nayyirayn ⟨li-Thābit b. Qurra⟩
This is a reworked and expanded version of Thābit b. Qurra’s treatise on solar und lunar motion as described in Almagest IV.2 (C.1.4). The relationship between the two versions has been discussed by Morelon (Thābit ibn Qurra, esp. pp.
Text: [Istanbul, Topkapı, Hazine 455]
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Bibl.: Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa, ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ (ed. MüllerAugust Müller, ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī l-ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ li-ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa, 2 vols, Cairo: al-Maṭbaʿa al-Wahbiyya, 1882, vol. I, p. 220); Ibn al-Qifṭī, Taʾrīkh al-ḥukamāʾ (ed. LippertJulius Lippert, Ibn al-Qifṭī’s Taʾrīḫ al-ḥukamā, Leipzig: Dieterich, 1903, p. 117). — SuterHeinrich Suter, Die Mathematiker und Astronomen der Araber und ihre Werke, Leipzig: Teubner, 1900, pp. 34–38 (no. 66); E. Bessel-Hagen and O. Spies, ‘Ṯābit b. Qurra’s Abhandlung über einen halbregelmäßigen Vierzehnflächner’, Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte der Mathematik, Astronomie und Physik. Abteilung B: Studien 2 (1933), pp. 186–198, here pp. 187–189; GAS VIFuat Sezgin, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums. Vol. VI: Astronomie bis ca. 430 H., Leiden: Brill, 1978, p. 166 (no. 2) and p. 167 (no. 7); Régis Morelon, Thābit ibn Qurra. Œuvres d’astronomie, Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1987, pp. lxxx–xcii, 83–92, and 222–229; Régis Morelon, ‘Tābit b. Qurra and Arab Astronomy in the 9th Century’, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 4 (1994), pp. 111–139, here pp. 115–118 (reprinted in Régis Morelon, ‘The Astronomy of Thābit ibn Qurra’, in Roshdi Rashed (ed.), Thābit ibn Qurra. Science and Philosophy in Ninth-Century Baghdad, Berlin / New York: de Gruyter, 2009, pp. 601–618); Fuat Sezgin, Thābit Ibn Qurra ibn Zahrūn al-Ḥarrānī (d. 288/901). Three Treatises on Mathematics and Astronomy. Reproduced from MS Köprülü 948, Istanbul, Frankfurt am Main: Institut für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften, 2011; Pouyan Rezvani, Si risāla az Thābit ibn Qurra (Sāʿat-hā-yi āftābī, Ḥarikat-i khurshīd wa māh, Chahārdah wajhī-yi muḥāt dar kura). Nuskha bargardān bi qatʿ-i aṣl-i nuskha-yi khaṭṭī-yi bi shumāra-yi 948, Kitābkhāna-yi Kūprūlū (Istānbūl), kitābat-i 370 H., Tehran: Miras-e Maktoob, 2014.
Ed.: None, but see C.1.4 for the original version.
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