Princely Pandect on Astronomy

Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī's Muʿīnīya Epistle and its Appendix

AvKaveh Niazi

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Subsequently T?u¯si was to pen hisown commentary on the work (the ?all-i Mushkilat-i Mu?iniya, or A solution to the difficulties of the Mu?iniya) and he used this occasion to discuss his celebrated mathematical formulation “the T?u¯si Couple” (a concept that he merely hinted at in the Risala-yi Mu?iniya).

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-11-19
Mått:155 x 235 x 32 mm
Vikt:994 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Archimedes
Antal sidor:516
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030507602

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Kaveh Niazi received a Ph.D in applied physics from the University of California, Berkeley (1995) as well as a Ph.D in the history of science from Columbia University, New York, in 2011. He is the author of "Quṭb al-Dīn Shīrāzī and the Configuration of the Heavens" (Springer, 2014). His research interests include the history of astronomy, geology, and engineering in the Islamic era.

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Preface.- Part I. Introduction.- Chapter 1 Ṭūsī’s hayʾa.- Chapter 2 Ṭūsī as a Young Scholar.- Chapter 3 On the Structure and Contents of Risāla-yi Muʿīnīya.- Part II. Edition and Translation of Risāla-yi Muʿīnīya.- Chapter 4 Book One: On the Introduction to this Science.- Chapter 5 Two: On the Configuration of the Celestial Bodies.- Chapter 6 Book Three: On the Configuration of the Earth and the Difference in the State of its Regions Due to the Difference in the State of the Celestial Bodies.- Chapter 7 Book Four: On the Distances and Bodies.- Part III. Ṭūsī’s Commentary on Risāla-yi Muʿīnīya.- Chapter 8 The Chapters. Appendices.- Glossary.- Bibliography.- Index.