Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Kathīr al-Farghānī (d. after 247/861), an astronomer at the court of the ʿAbbāsid caliph al-Maʾmūn (r. 198–218/813–33), wrote an influential compendium of Ptolemy’s Almagest in thirty chapters and a description of the construction of the astrolabe. Ibn al-Na…
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A collection of previously published articles on the textual transmission of the mathematical sciences from the Greeks to the Arabic-speaking peoples and from them to the Latin West. The topics include some geometrical theorems attributed to Archimedes and their appearance in th…