scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2154448

MaRDI QIDQ4664971zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors F. Jamil Ragep

Publication date 9 April 2005

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of mathematics in the Golden Age of Islam (01A30) Collected or selected works; reprintings or translations of classics (01A75) History of astronomy and astrophysics (85-03)

Review text

The author edits and translates Chapter 5 of al Ṭūṣī's Persian treatise ``Ḥall-i muškilat-i Mu'īniyya, which explains a theory of al Haytham (al Haytham's text is lost) in which he replaces the theory of epicycles by the simultaneous rotation of two concentric spheres. It is pointed out that this theory is attributed to Eudoxus in Aristotle's metaphysics; but al Haytham's technical details are different from what can be gleaned from Aristotle. The treatise of al Haytham referred to was written before the latter's larger ``Doubts about Ptolemy. The text edited is also important because it is the first indication of a restricted version of the ``Ṭūṣī couple. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1055.01002].

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