تحرير المناظر لأقليدس Taḥrīr al-manāẓir li-Uqlīdis Euclid أقليدس

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Arabic version of the Optica (المناظر) by the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (Εὐκλείδης; أقليدس; fl. 300 BC) presented here in the edition (تحرير) of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 1274).

The diagrams are collected on a fold out (f. 56r) following the text.

Begins (ff. 36v, lines 2-4):

تحرير المناظر لأقليدس و هو أربعة وستون شكلًا صدر الكتاب

العين يحدث باستمداد من الأجرام النيرة في الجسم الشفاف المتوسط

بينهما وبين المبصرات كالهواء وماشاكله شعاعا كما تحدثه الأجرام النيرة

Ends (f. 55r, lines 5-9):

... وكذلك

اللتان يوثرهما القطران فادن الأضلاع

تساوية في الروية وكذلك القطران

وذلك ما أردناه ...

Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 55r, lines 8-9):

... تم كتاب المناظر

لأقليدس وهو سد شكلًا

Below the colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. is a collation note in Persian dated 9 Jumādá I, without mention of the year.

Extent and format

ff. 36v-56r

It is part of

Arabic versions of seven 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 1249

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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 1249, ff 36v-56r

History of this record

Date(s)

Jumādá I 1198 (AH, Hijri qamari)

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Edition and translation of Arabic text:

• The Arabic Version of Euclid's Optics (Kitāb Uqlīdis fī ikhtilāf al-manāẓir) , 2 vols, Elaheh Kheirandish, ed. and trans. (New York: Springer, 1999)
• Euclid, Kitāb al-Manāẓir , 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:

• Euclidis Opera omnia . Vol. VII, Euclidis Optica, opticorum recensio Theonis, catoptrica, cum scholiis antiquis , I.L. Heiberg, ed. (Liepzig: Teubner, 1895)

Subjects

Optics -- Early works to 1800

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EuclidIsḥāq ibn ḤunaynThābit ibn Qurrah al-ḤarrānīNaṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ṬūsīWarren Hastings

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