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Part of the book series: Sources in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences (SOURCES, volume 12)
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I was introduced to Tiisi: and his Tadhkira some 19 years ago. That first meeting was neither happy nor auspicious. My graduate student notes from the time indicate a certain level of confusion and frustration; I seem to have had trouble with such words as tadwlr (epicycle), which was not to be found in my standard dictionary, and with the concept of solid-sphere astronomy, which, when found, was pooh-poohed in the standard sources. I had another, even more decisive reaction: boredom. Only the end of the term brought relief, and I was grateful to be on to other, more exciting aspects of the history of science. A few years later, I found myself, thanks to fellowships from Fulbright-Hays and the American Research Center in Egypt, happily immersed in the manu script collections of Damascus, Aleppo, and Cairo. Though I had intended to work on a topic in the history of mathematics, I was drawn, perhaps inevitably, to a certain type of astronomical writing falling under the rubric of hay' a. At first this fascination was based on sheer numbers; that so many medieval scientists could have written on such a subject must mean something, I told myself. (I was in a sociological mode at the time.
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Front Matter
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General Introduction
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Front Matter
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Edition and Translation
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Commentary Figures
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s Memoir on Astronomy (al-Tadhkira fī cilm al-hay’a)
Book Subtitle: Volume I: Introduction, Edition, and Translation
Authors: F. J. Ragep
Series Title: Sources in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2241-3
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1993
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-2243-7Published: 07 May 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-2241-3Published: 29 June 2013
Series ISSN: 0172-6315
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 371
Topics: Mathematics, general, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Astrophysics and Astroparticles