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Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s Memoir on Astronomy (al-Tadhkira fī cilm al-hay’a)

Volume I: Introduction, Edition, and Translation

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  • © 1993

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Authors:
  1. F. J. Ragep

    1. Department of the History of Science, University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA

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Part of the book series: Sources in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences (SOURCES, volume 12)

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. General Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī

      • F. J. Ragep
      Pages 3-23

    3. The Tadhkira

      • F. J. Ragep
      Pages 24-88

  3. Edition and Translation

    1. Edition and Translation

      • F. J. Ragep
      Pages 89-341

  4. Commentary Figures

    1. Commentary Figures

      • F. J. Ragep
      Pages 343-371
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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, even more decisive reaction: boredom. Only the end of the term brought relief, and I was grateful to be on to other, more exciting aspects of the history of science. A few years later, I found myself, thanks to fellowships from Fulbright-Hays and the American Research Center in Egypt, happily immersed in the manu­ script collections of Damascus, Aleppo, and Cairo. Though I had intended to work on a topic in the history of mathematics, I was drawn, perhaps inevitably, to a certain type of astronomical writing falling under the rubric of hay' a. At first this fascination was based on sheer numbers; that so many medieval scientists could have written on such a subject must mean something, I told myself. (I was in a sociological mode at the time.

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  • Department of the History of Science, University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA

    F. J. Ragep

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