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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1110542
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1110542 |
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11 February 1998
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projections of the sphere
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conics
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Apollonius
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astrolabe
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0.8245720863342285
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Al-Ṣaghānī worked in the 10th century, the manuscript investigated here is in Aleppo. Al-Ṣaghānī is the first to consider projections of the sphere into its equatorial plane if the center of the projection is not on the sphere (and, hence, the images of circles on the sphere are conics rather than circles). A detailed description of the geometric construction of these conics is given, based on propositions of Apollonius. The author adds the drawing of an astrolabe constructed by al-Ṣaghānī's method. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0881.00050].
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