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.
Ed.: None, but see C.1.4 for the original version.
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