كتاب ظاهرات الفلك لأقليدس Kitāb Ẓāhirāt al-falak li-Uqlīdis Euclid أقليدس
IO Islamic 1249, ff 57v-86r
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The record is made up of ff. 57v-86r. It was created in Jumādá I 1198. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.
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Arabic version of the Phaenomena (Φαινόμενα; ظاهرات الفلك) by the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (Εὐκλείδης; أقليدس; fl. 300 BC) presented here in the edition of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 1274).
The diagrams are collected on a fold out (f. 86r) following the text.
Begins (f. 57v, lines 2-4):
كتاب ظاهرات الفلك لأقليدس ثلثة وعشرون شكلًا وفي بعض النسخ
خمسة وعشرون شكلًا يقول محرر هذا الكتاب لم يقع إلى من الكتاب
غير نسخة في غاية السقم أكثرها من التصحيف والتحريف
Ends (85r, lines 3-6):
... القسي المتساوية من فلك البروح التي
في النصف الحيواني فإن زمان تبديل كل واحدة منها نصف الكرة الحقي أعظم
من زمان تبديل أيّ قوس كانت غيرها من ذلك النصف لنصف الكرة الظاهر
والبرهان والشكل ك
Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (85r, line 6):
تم الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب
Below the colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. is a collation note in Persian dated 10 Jumādá I, without mention of the year.
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Edition:
- Euclid, Kitāb Ẓāhirāt al-falak , 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])
- Zạ̄hirāt al-falak li-Uqlīdis, t 270 Q.M. Bi-tahṛīr Nasị̄r al-Dīn al-Tụ̄sī (maʻa dirāsah li-manhaj al-tahṛīr al-naqdī ʻinda al-Tụ̄sī) , ʻAbbās Muhạmmad Hạsan Sulaymān, ed., (Beirut: Dār al-Nahdạh al-ʻArabīyah, 1996)
Edition of original Greek text:
- Euclidis Opera omnia. Vol. VIII, Euclidis phaenomena et scripta musica , H. Menge and I.L. Heiberg, eds (Liepzig: Teubner, 1916)
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- كتاب ظاهرات الفلك لأقليدس Kitāb Ẓāhirāt al-falak li-Uqlīdis Euclid أقليدس
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- 57v:85v, 86 r, 86r:86v, 86v:87r
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