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Title: | The Tāj al-azyāj of Muhyī al-Dīn al-Maghribī (d. 1283): methods of computation |
Author: | Dorce, Carlos |
Keywords: | Història de l'astronomia Astronomia àrab Càlculs numèrics Matemàtica àrab Història de la matemàtica History of astronomy Arab astronomy Numerical calculations Arab mathematics History of mathematics |
Issue Date: | 2003 |
Publisher: | Universitat de Barcelona |
Abstract: | This paper is about the fírst astronomical work of Mubyi al-Dio alMaghribi 1 , aD AndalusI-MaghribI astronomer who worked in Damascus and Mariigba. His first dated astronomical work is the zij titled Tiij al-azyiíj wa-ghunyat al-mu.btiij (The Crown of tbe Astronornical Handhooks and the Satisfaction of the Needy). l know of three copies of this zij: ane in the Escorial Library, numbered Árabe 932 (Ms. E), another in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin (Ms. N. 4 129, Ms. D) and another in tbe Department of Arabic Philology of the University of Barcelona (Ms. B). Ms. E (fol. 57v) states that the zij was compiled in Damascus in 656H1 1258. This copy was made by Muzaffar ¡bn 'Abd AlUih in Tunís in 797H1 1394. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Suhayl/article/view/199606 |
It is part of: | Suhayl. Journal for the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islam, 2003, vol. 3, p. 193-212 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/113126 |
ISSN: | 1576-9372 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Matemàtiques i Informàtica) |
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