Book/Printed Material Smoothing the Basis for the Investigation of the Meaning of Transits.
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Title
- Smoothing the Basis for the Investigation of the Meaning of Transits.
Summary
- Abu al-Rayhan al-Biruni (also known by the Latinized version of his name, Alberonius, 973--1048 AD; 362--440 AH) was an 11th-century Muslim polymath whose works and scholarly interests spanned the physical and natural sciences, mathematics, astronomy, geography, history, chronology, and linguistics. Al-Biruni was born in Kath, Khuwarazm, in present-day Uzbekistan, and died in Ghazni, in what is today east-central Afghanistan. He wrote more than 120 works and is considered the founder of Indology for his detailed description of 11th-century India. The crater Al-Biruni on the moon is named after him. Tamhīd al-mustaqarr li-taḥqīq maʻná al-mamarr (Smoothing the basis for the investigation of the meaning of transits) is a treatise dealing with the subject of light rays and shadow lengths. It was al-Biruni who discovered that light traveled more quickly than sound.
Names
- Bīrūnī, Muhammad ibn Ahmad, 973?-1048 Author.
Created / Published
- Haydarabad Al-Dakan : Press Association, 1948.
Headings
- - Afghanistan
- - 973 to 1048
- - Library of Congress Afghanistan Project
- - Light
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - Original resource extent: 107 pages.
- - Original resource at: Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
- - Content in Arabic.
- - Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
Medium
- 1 online resource.
Source Collection
- Arabic and Islamic Science and Its Influence on the Western Scientific Tradition: Astronomy
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Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021666157
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