Work C.1.27
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رسالة في حركة النيّرين لثابت بن قرّة
Risāla fī Ḥarakat al-nayyirayn ⟨li-Thābit ibn Qurra⟩
This is a reworked and expanded version of Thābit ibn Qurra’s treatise on solar und lunar motion as described in Almagest IV.2 (see C.1.4). The relationship between the two versions was discussed by Morelon (Thābit ibn Qurra, esp. pp. lxxxii–lxxxiii). This second version consists of three parts, of which the first is a complete reworking of the original treatise, possibly by Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, with much of the technical terminology modified. The remaining two parts (in Istanbul, Topkapı, Hazine 455 starting on f. 77r, line 3), which are not included in the main witness of the original version (see Istanbul, Köprülü, Fazıl Ahmed Paşa 948), contain further notes on Book IV of the Almagest which are ascribed to Thābit in the respective colophons. Morelon (Thābit ibn Qurra, p. lxxxii) considers the ascription of these two parts to Thābit doubtful and did not edit or translate them.
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); 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). — 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; 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.: Edition and French translation of the original version (C.1.4) by Morelon (Thābit ibn Qurra, pp. 83–92). German translation of the introduction of the original version in Bessel-Hagen & Spies (p. 188).
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