Taḥrīr kitāb al-kurrah al-mutaḥarrikah تحرير كتاب الكرة المتحركة Autolycus أوطولوقس

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Arabic version of the De sphaera quae movertur (Περὶ κινουμένης σφαίρας;كتاب الكرة المتحركة) by the astronomer, mathematician and geographer Autolycus of Pitane (Αὐτόλυκος ὁ Πιταναῖος; أوطولوقس; fl. 300 BC), translation from the Greek revised by Thābit ibn Qurrah (ثابت بن قرة; d. 901).

The diagrams are collected on a fold out (f. 10r) following the text. At the end of the text is a collation note in Persian dated 17 Jumādá I without mention of the year (f. 9v), probably 1198 (8 April 1784).

Contents:

Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-4):

تحرير كتاب الكرة المتحركة لأوطولوقس أصلحه ثابت وهو مقالة

واحدة وإثنا عشر شكلًا صدر النقطة التي تتحرك حركة معدلة

هي التي تسير في أزمان تساوية مقادير تساوية تشابهة

Ends (f. 9v, lines 2-4):

فهو عمود على سطح دائرة ب ه ء وكان السطح ما يلا هذا خلف

فز مركز الكرة لا غير فإذن كلّ واحدة من دائرتي أ ب ح ء

ب ه ء عظيمة وذلك ما أردناه

Extent and format

ff. 1v-10r

It is part of

Arabic (and one Persian) versions of six Greek treatises on mathematics edited by Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد

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Ref: IO Islamic 923

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Arabic in Arabic script

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Manuscript item

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British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IO Islamic 923, ff 1v-10r

History of this record

Date(s)

17 Jumādá I 1198 (AH, Hijri qamari)

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Edition:

• Autolycus, Kitāb al-kurah al-mutaḥarrikah , in Majmūʿ al-rasāʼil ḥarrarahā Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (Ḥaydarābād al-Dakkan: Dāʼirat al-Maʿārif al-ʿUthmānīyah, 1358-1359 [1939-1940])

Edition of original Greek text:

• Autolyci de sphaera quae movetur liber. De ortibus et occasibus libri duo una cum scholiis antiquis e libris manu scriptis edidit , Friedrich Otto Hultsch, ed., (Liepzig: Teubner, 1885)

Edition and translation of original Greek text:

• The Books of Autolykos. On a Moving Sphere, and On Risings and Settings , Frans Bruin and Alexander Vondjidis, eds. and trans., (Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1971)

Subjects

Geometry--Early works to 1800

People & organisations

Thābit ibn Qurrah al-ḤarrānīAutolycusNaṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ṭūsī

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