Na R Al-D N Al- S S Memoir on Astronomy (Al-Tadhkira F CILM Al-Hay A): Volume I: Introduction, Edition, and Translation

by Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, F.J. Ragep, F. Jamil Ragep

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387940510
• ISBN13: 9780387940519
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 371 Pages