scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1110538

MaRDI QIDQ4375076zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Anton M. Heinen

Publication date 11 February 1998

zbMATH Keywords

astronomyellipses

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the Golden Age of Islam (01A30)

Review text

The complete text (diacritical points supplied by the editor) and translation of a short treatise of the ninth century astronomer Sanad ibn `Ali, copied in the twelfth century in the Niẓāmiya College of Baghdad, a place not usually known for its friendliness towards the sciences. The argument about the relative sizes of Sun, Moon, and Earth uses simple similarity arguments applied to facts known from ellipses. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0881.00050].

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