Kitāb al-tadhkirah fī al-hay’ah كتاب التذكرة في الهيئة Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
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The record is made up of Ff. 2r-60v. It was created in 1107. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.
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A treatise on astronomy which summarises, rationalises and improves upon the system presented in the Almagest of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168). The text was composed after 1256 by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274).
The text is divided into four chapters (أبواب), each subdivided into sections (فصول):
Chapter One (الباب الأول, ff.2v-4v);
Chapter Two (الباب الثاني, ff. 4v-38r);
Chapter Three (الباب الثالث, ff. 38r-53r);
Chapter Four (الباب الرابع, ff. 53r-60v).
The manuscript contains twenty-seven diagrams (ff. 12r, 12v, 14r, 14v, 15v, 19r, 22r, 24v, 27r, 27v, 29r, 30r 32v, 33v, 35r, 36v, 44v, 45v, 46r, 50r, 50v, 55r, and 56r). The fifteenth diagram (f. 27) depicts the so-called 'Tusi couple', which demonstrates how linear motion can result from circular motion.
Begins (f. 2v, lines 2-3):
الحمد لله مفيض الخير وملهم الصواب وصلوته على محمد المبعوث بفصل الخطاب وعلى آله خير آل
وأصحابه خير أصحاب نريد أن نورد جملًا من علم الهيئة تذكرة لبعض الأحباب ...
Ends (f. 60v, lines 12-16):
... وأما من سطح الأرض إلى ما هو أقرب
الينافر فلك القمر فأحد وأربعون ألفًا وأربعمائة وستة وثلثون فرسخًا والثاني
أبعدها وهو بعد الثوابت عن مركز الأرض فكان خمسة وعشرين ألف وألف وأربعمائة
وإثنى عشر ألفًا وثمانمائة وتسعة وتسعين فرسخًا ولنختم الكتاب ههنا الحمد لله وحده وصلوته
على سيدنا محمد النبي الأمي وآله
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- 1107 (AH, Hijri qamari)
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Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum, 1846-71), Item 1339, p. 620
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- Ragep, F. Jamil, Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī's Memoir on Astronomy (al-Tadhkira fī ʿilm al-hayʾa) , 2 Vols., (New York: Springer-Verlag, 1993)
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