Kitāb risālat al-durr al-manthūr fī al-ʻamal bi-rubʻ al-dastūr : murattabah ʻalá muqaddimah wa-sittīn bāban : manuscript, [1495] / taʼlīf al-shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn al-Māridīnī.

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Kitāb risālat al-durr al-manthūr fī al-ʻamal bi-rubʻ al-dastūr : murattabah ʻalá muqaddimah wa-sittīn bāban : manuscript, [1495] / taʼlīf al-shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn al-Māridīnī.

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The introduction of this work is a "brief, independent treatise in which the author sets forth the basic ideas (mainly definitions) of geometry and spherical astronomy. The rest of the work (60 chapters) is mostly concerned with problems regarding the transformation of coordinates with the dastūr quadrant." M. Plessner, "al-Mārdīnī," in Encyclopedia of Islam (Leiden, 1989), v. vi, pp. 542b-543a. "An extensive treatise on the sine quadrant also dealing with sundials, arranged in 60 bābs." David A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 66.

1 v. ([90] p.) ; 19 cm.

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Māridīnī, Jamāl al-Dīn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Khalīl al-Qāhirī, d. 1406.

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Meyerhof, Max, 1874-1945

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