Al birjandi (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Edited, Commented and Translated by Takanori Kusuba and David Pingree. 24.5cm. 287pp.

4to (173 x 265 mm). 18 ff. Persian manuscript on paper. 17 lines of black nasta'liq with important words and phrases picked out and red, and numerous rubricated charts and diagrams. Rebacked contemporary red leather decorated with floral borders and medallions. An illustrated treatise on the astrolabe by famous Persian astronomer, physicist, and mathematician Abd Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Husayn Birjandi (d. 1528). This manuscript contains a different text than al-Birjandi's better known work on the uses of the astrolabe, and is flush with illustrations and charts to aid in the reader's understanding of theoretical and practical usage of the instrument. - Al-Birjandi's writings are some of the most important of the 16th century; he was a member of the Ulugh Beg Observatory, wrote on the sizes and distances of the planets, hypothesized the physics of Earth's rotation, and explained the tools of his trade, from ephemerides tables which track and predict the motions of the heavens to astronomical tools such as, of course, the astrolabe. This particular treatise has been furnished with over a dozen in-text geometrical diagrams explaining different sections of the work. - Early binding fully rebacked and laid down, modern spine and endpapers, professional paper repairs throughout.…

Contemporary brown full calf with tooled boards rebacked tastefully to match. Spine in five compartments of four raised bands with gilt ornamentation on all compartments. Tooled dentelles on all edges of both covers. Marbled pasted and free endpapers., Persian manuscript on paper. 31 leaves. 19 lines to the page. Based on an important work of the prominent Persian mathematician, physicist and astronomer, Al-Birjandi. Illegible writing on the verso of the first leaf with a beautiful Persian stamp and two more stamps at the end of the book presumably an ex libris. Abd Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Husayn Birjandi (died 1528) was a prominent 16th-century Persian astronomer, mathematician and physicist who lived in Birjand, Iran. The text is written throughout in black and red ink with diagrams illustrating many of the astronomical elements discussed.In discussing the structure of the cosmos, al-Birjandi continued Ali al-Qushji's debate on the Earth's rotation. In his analysis of what might occur if the Earth were moving, he develops a hypothesis similar to Galileo Galilei's notion of "circular inertia", which he described in the following observational test (as a response to one of Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi's arguments):?The small or large rock will fall to the Earth along the path of a line that is perpendicular to the plane (sath) of the horizon; this is witnessed by experience (tajriba). And this perpendicular is away from the tangent point of the Earth?s sphere and the plane of the perceived (hissi) horizon. This point moves with the motion of the Earth and thus there will be no difference in place of fall of the two rocks.? , Size : 4to (209x164mm). , Illustrated with numerous diagrams in red ink. Written in Nasta?liq script in black ink. Significant words and phrases are written, or underlined, in red ink. Extensive commentary in margins. , P. 1-31. The book is in very good condition. Text and diagrams are clean.…

Large 8vo (148 x 242 mm). Arabic manuscript on polished, cream-coloured wove paper. 506 ff. 19 lines of black naskh with red underlinings and numerous diagrams in red and black ink. Several black and red ink marginal glosses. Contemporary full red morocco with fore-edge flap, ruled in blind. A rare, complete, and well-preserved late mid-17th century manuscript of Al-Birjandi's "Sharh al-Tadhkirah", a commentary on the "Tadhkira", the memoir of the Persian polymath at-Tusi (1201-74). As consistent with the Islamic tradition of commentary, Al-Birjandi provides explanations for the reader and provides alternative views while assessing the viewpoints of predecessors. - Abd Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Husayn Birjandi (d. 1528) was a prominent Persian astronomer, mathematician and physicist from Birjand. A pupil of Mansur ibn Muin al-Din al-Kashi, of the Ulugh Beg Observatory, he anticipated notions later developed by Galileo Galilei in the West. - Binding rubbed and bumped at extremities. Some brownstains throughout; first and last leaves remargined. - Several old waqf stamps. - GAL S I, 931, 40 g. …

Large 8vo (146 x 238 mm). Arabic manuscript on polished oriental paper. 865 pp. (paginated in a later hand), 25 lines, per extensum. Black ink with red underlinings and emphases. With numerous diagrams in the text. Contemporary blindstamped full calf, restored and spine rebacked. A rare, complete, and well-preserved late 16th century Arabic manuscript of Al-Birjandi's "Sharh al-Tadhkirah", a commentary (originally in Persian) on the "Tadhkira", the astronomical memoir of the Persian polymath at-Tusi (1201-74). As consistent with the Islamic tradition of commentary, Al-Birjandi provides explanations for the reader and provides alternative views while assessing the viewpoints of predecessors. - Abd Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Husayn Birjandi (d. 1528) was a prominent Persian astronomer, mathematician and physicist from Birjand. A pupil of Mansur ibn Muin al-Din al-Kashi, of the Ulugh Beg Observatory, he anticipated notions later developed by Galileo Galilei in the West. - Copied by the scribe Abd al-Wahhab bin Mawlana Baha al-Din. Somewhat browned throughout; some waterstaining to lower half, more pronounced near the end of the volume. The text illustrations show sections, celestial spheres and other astronomical and mathematical diagrams. Old waqf stamp to first leaf. Restored binding uses original cover material. - GAL I S, 931, 40 g. …