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669 |
Mayl. Cf.
al-Khuwarizmi,
Mafitib al-'ulum, p.
127: "Mayl is
the distance of the sun or a given star from
the equinoctial line." Cf.
also alBirmni, Kitab
at-tafhim, p. 59. |
670 |
Cf.
Bombaci, p. 457. |
671 |
D:
"but he died before it was completed." |
672 |
Cf. the translation of this passage by
C. A. Nallino, Raccolta di scritti
editie inediti, V, 43 f. |
673 |
Le.,
Ptolemy's Syntaxis Astronomica.
For the origin and vocalization of the Arabic
term, cf. F. Rosenthal, "Al-Kindi
and Ptolemy," in Studi orientalistici
in onore di Giorgio Levi Della Vida
(Rome, 1956), II, 438 f. Later Muslim scholars seem to have
preferred the vocalization Mijisli. |
674 |
Cf.
p. 126, above. |
675 |
Cf.
p. 130, above. |
676 |
Abmad b. Mubammad (Alfraganus), d. after 247 [861/621. Cf. GAL,
I, 221; Suppl., I,
392 f. |
677 |
Qur'an 96.5 (5). |
678 |
Zij, usually
connected with Persian zU "threads in the loom" > "lines in
tables" > "tables." Cf. C. A.
Nallino, op. cit., V,
120. It may, however, be a distortion of
bizidhaj, the
Middle Persian title of the Anthology
of Vettius Valens. Intervocalic
dh is known
to change to y in Middle Persian (cf. W. Eilers, "Der Name des
persischen Neujahrsfestes," in
Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften and der Literatur,
Geistes- and Sozialwissenschaftliche Masse, 1953,
No. 2, p. 4), and bi-
may have been lost, in the course of
transmission, as preposition, as is known to happen.
Cf. now E. S.
Kennedy, "A Survey of Islamic Astronomical Tables," in
Transactions of the American Philosophical
Society, N.S. XLVI
(1956),123-77. |
679 |
I.e.,
chronology, mathematical and historical. |
680 |
Cf,
p. 134, above. |
681 |
Ta'dil
and taqwim. The latter word became
tacuin in Latin translations from the Arabic. |
682 |
Muhammad b. Jibir,
ca. 244 [858]
to 317 [9291. Cf. GAL, I, 222;
Suppl. I, 397. |
683 |
Ahmad b. Yusuf b.
al-Kammad, d. 691 [1195]? Cf. GAL,
Suppl., I, 864. He is probably
identical with Ibn al-Hammad, an author of
zijs mentioned by al-Qifti,
Ta'rikh al-bukama', p.
57, I. 15. Hajji Khalifah,
Kashf az-zunun, III,
569, seems to confuse him with Ibn Ishaq and
gives a wrong date (679 [1280/81]), which has caused
considerable confusion to this day. Cf. R. Brunschvig, La
Berberie orientale (Publications de l'Institut d'Etudes
Orientales d'Alger, Vols. VIII & XI) (Paris 1940-47), 11, 369.
The first to call attention to the situation seems to have been
H. Suter, Die Mathematiker and
Astronomen der Araber and Are Werke (Abhandlungen
zur Geschichte der mathematischen Wissenschaften, No. 10)
(Leipzig, 1900), p. 196. |
684 |
Bulaq adds: "an
astronomer in Tunis at the beginning of the seventh [thirteenth]
century." He is Abul-'Abbas 'Ali b. Ishaq, who made astronomical
observations in 619 [i2221. Cf.
H. P. J. Renaud in
Hesperis, XXV (1938), 31; and
idem, Les Manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial (Paris, 1941),
I13, 7, No. 909. |
685 |
Cf.
1:238,
and pp.
121, 123, 136
(n.
684),
above. |
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