4 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Euclid's Elements, Geometry, and Astronomy — 1579 | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Title

4 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Euclid's Elements, Geometry, and Astronomy — 1579

Shelfmark

MS. Huntington 237

Date

1579

Language

Arabic

1. ff. 1r-76r Author: Alhazen, 965-1039 ابن الهيثم، محمد بن الحسن، 354-حو. 430 هـ Title: Sharḥ muṣādarat kitab Uqlīdus fī uṣūl handasah

2. ff. 76r-82r Author: Autolykos Title: al-Kurah al-mutaḥarrikah

3. ff. 82r-104v Author: Anonymous Title: An abridgment (on the trisection of the right angle) of part of Abū Jaʻfar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ʼs Iṣlāḥ K. al-Makhrūṭāt [of Apollonius, of Perga *]

4. ff. 104v-123r Author: Anonymous Title: Bayān maʻānī kayfīyat al-raṣd al-muḥaqqiq [? muḥaqqaq]

Form

codex

Physical extent

76 ff. 7 ff. 23 ff. 20 ff.

Acquisition

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1693.

Provenance

The collections of Robert Huntington, d. 1701.

Subject

Geometry

Astronomy

Euclid's Elements

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