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HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Al-Kashi on Root
Extraction
Abdul-Kader Dakhel
This
monograph is a detailed examination of Chapter 5 of the
Third Treatise of Jamshīd Ghiyāth al-Dīn al-Kāshī (al-Kāshānī,
d. 1429) from his book, The Key to Arithmetic (Miftāḥ
al-Ḥisāb),
also known as The Computers’ Key (Miftāḥ
al-Ḥussāb).
A facsimile of the original manuscript is reproduced in
chapter three of the text, along with an opposite-page
translation and commentary. A sexagesimal
multiplication table – useful to those engaged in
computations from Babylonian, Greek, Arabic, and
Byzantine scientific writings -- is included in a back
pocket of the book.
English
(Preface, Table of Contents, and Part 1 additionally in
Arabic), 1960, 42 pages, soft cover, $1.
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The Books of Autolykos. “On a Moving Sphere” and “On
Risings and Settings”
Translated and edited by Frans Bruin and Alexander
Vondjidis
The
Greek mathematician Autolykos wrote these treatises
around 320 BC. They form the oldest material on Greek
mathematical astronomy that has survived in a well
preserved form. The books contains the complete Greek
text and its translation into English, the latter
published here for the first time, while the Greek text
is based on the critical edition of Joseph Mogenet. The
Books of Autolykos deal with the simple geometry
of points and large circles on a sphere, applying the
axiomatic method systematically for the first time.
These treatises give a clear insight into the status of
Greek mathematical astronomy just before the initiation
of the famous School of Alexandria.
English and Greek, 1971, 92 and 70 pages, cloth, $6. |
The Determination of
Coordinates of Positions for the Correction of Distances
Between Cities by al-Biruni (Kitab Tahdid Nihayat al-Amakin
Litaslih Masafat al-Masakin)
Translated by Jamil Ali
The present translation from
the Arabic of the Tahdid is based on Dr. P. Boljakoff's
edition published in 1962. The text deals with
geographical-mathematical subjects, the determination of
latitude, the obliquity of the eclipitic, the measurement
of time, lunar eclipses, logitudinal differences, and
methods for the determination of the Qibla, the direction
of prayer for Muslims.
English, 1967, 296 pages,
1967, $9.
Studies in the Islamic
Exact Sciences
Edward S. Kennedy
An important compilation of articles by E.S.
Kennedy, many of them joint publications with his students
at AUB, on a wide range of topics within the field of
Islamic astronomy, astrology and mathematics.
English, 1983, 771 pages, hardcover,
$40
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