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Book/Printed Material Six Essays from the Book of Commentaries on Euclid.

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Title

  • Six Essays from the Book of Commentaries on Euclid.

Summary

  • Naseer al-Din (or al-Naseer) al-Tusi (1201--74 AD, 597--672 AH) was a Muslim Persian polymath. He was born in Tus, Khorasan, in present-day Iran. Al-Tusi witnessed the great invasion of the Islamic empire by the Mongols, whom he later joined. He was said to have been in the company of Hulegu Khan when the latter destroyed the Abbasid capital of Baghdad in 1258 AD. Al-Tusi, already a well-known scientist, later convinced Hulegu Khan to construct an observatory to facilitate the establishment of accurate astronomical tables for better astrological predictions. Beginning in 1259, the Rasad Khaneh observatory was built in Azerbaijan, west of Maragheh, the capital of the Ilkhanate Empire. Based on the observations made in that observatory, al-Tusi constructed very accurate tables of planetary movements. This work consists of six essays from al-Tusi's book Kitab usul al-hindasa wa al-hisab (The book of the origins of geometry and arithmetic, also known as Commentaries on Euclid), an illustrated treatise on the Greek mathematician's work.

Names

  • Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274 Author.

Created / Published

  • Calcutta : [publisher not identified], 1824.

Headings

  • -  300 to 1274
  • -  Euclid

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 180 pages, illustrated.
  • -  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.

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  • 2021666187

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Chicago citation style:

Ṭūsī, Naṣīr Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad, Author. Six Essays from the Book of Commentaries on Euclid. [Calcutta: Publisher Not Identified, 1824] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666187/.

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Ṭūsī, N. A. M. I. M. (1824) Six Essays from the Book of Commentaries on Euclid. [Calcutta: Publisher Not Identified] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666187/.

MLA citation style:

Ṭūsī, Naṣīr Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad, Author. Six Essays from the Book of Commentaries on Euclid. [Calcutta: Publisher Not Identified, 1824] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021666187/>.