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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

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021666157

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  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Bīrūnī, Muhammad Ibn Ahmad, 973?-1048 Author. Smoothing the Basis for the Investigation of the Meaning of Transits. Haydarabad Al-Dakan: Press Association, 1948. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666157/.

APA citation style:

Bīrūnī, M. I. A. (1948) Smoothing the Basis for the Investigation of the Meaning of Transits. Haydarabad Al-Dakan: Press Association. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666157/.

MLA citation style:

Bīrūnī, Muhammad Ibn Ahmad, 973?-1048 Author. Smoothing the Basis for the Investigation of the Meaning of Transits. Haydarabad Al-Dakan: Press Association, 1948. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021666157/>.