Al-Risāla al-muḥīṭa : Nuskha-yi khaṭṭi-yi shumāra-yi 5389 Kitābkhāna-yi Āstān-i Quds-i Riḍawī / by Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd Kāshānī ; (Edited by) Yūnis Karāmatī.
الرساله المحىتية :‪‪‪‪ نسخه برگردان بقطع اصل نسخۀ دستنوشت مؤلف به تارىخ ٨٢٧ ه (نسخۀ خطى شمارۀ ٥٣٨٩، کتابخانۀ آستان قدس رضوى) /‪‪‪‪ غىاث الدىن جمشىد کاشانى ؛ با مقدمۀ ىونس کرامتى.‪‪‪‪

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kāshānī, Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd, author.

Contributor:

Karāmatī, Yūnis, editor.

Āstān-i Quds-i Raz̤avī (Organization). Kitābʹkhānah-i Markazī.

آستان قدس رضوى (سازمان).‪‪‪‪ كتاب خانه مركزى‪‪‪‪

كرامتي، يونس.‪‪‪‪

Series:

Mīrās̲-i Maktūb (Series) ; Majmūʻah-i nuskhahʹbargardān ; 247. 11

مىراث مکتوب (سلسلة) ؛‪‪‪‪ مجموعه نسخه‌رگردان ؛‪‪‪‪ 247.‪ 11‪

Standardized Title:

Risālah al-Muḥīṭiyah

رسالة المحيطية‪‪‪‪

Language:

Arabic

English

Persian

Subjects (All):

Astronomers--Biography.

Astronomers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

چاپ 1.‪‪‪‪

Other Title:

Nuskha-yi khaṭṭi-yi shumāra-yi 5389 Kitābkhāna-yi Āstān-i Quds-i Riḍawī

Place of Publication:

تهران :‪‪‪‪ مشهد :‪‪‪‪ ابىک :‪‪‪‪ مرکز پژوهشى مىراث مکتوب ؛‪‪‪‪ آستان قدس رضوى، سازمان کتابخانه‌ا، موزه‌ا و مرکز اسناد ؛‪‪‪‪ مؤسسه آموزش عالى غىاث الدىن جمشىد کاشانى،‪‪‪‪ ‪2013‬.‪

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, [2019]

Language Note:

Arabic text with introds. in Persian and English.

Summary:

Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd Kāshānī is one of the most outstanding mathematicians and astronomers in the history of the Persianate world. The son of a physician, he was born around 790/1388 in Kashan, where he lived most of his life. Many of his writings were composed in that city, including his famous Zīj-i Khāqānī . In 824/1421 he left for Samarqand, where he played an important role in the construction of the observatory commissioned by the Timurid ruler and astronomer, Ulugh Beg (853/1449), becoming its first director. In 832/1429 he was found dead near this observatory, outside the walls of Samarqand. A violent death is suspected, probably on the order of Ulugh Beg. The present work, completed in 827/1424 in Samarqand, is about the determination of the number Pi. An innovative work of great merit, its exactness was only superseded with the publication of Ludolph van Ceulen's Van den circel in Delft, Holland, in 1596.

Notes:

Includes facsimile of Arabic text of al-Kāshī's work taken from MS 5389 held by the library of Āstān-i Quds-i Raz̤avī, as well as of the printed Arabic text published by Paul Luckey in 1953; also includes extensive introduction by Yūnus Karāmatī.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 37-38 (1st group)).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-40617-4

OCLC:

870312059

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004406179 DOI