The determination of the coordinates of positions for the correction of distances between cities : a translation from the Arabic of Al-bīrūnī's kitāb taḥdīd nihāyāt al-amākin litaṣḥīḥ masāfāt al-masākin

Author(s)

• Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad
• Ali, Jamil
• Sezgīn, Fuat
• ʿAmāwī, Māzin
• Ehrig-Eggert, C.
• Neubauer, Eckhart

Bibliographic Information

The determination of the coordinates of positions for the correction of distances between cities : a translation from the Arabic of Al-bīrūnī's kitāb taḥdīd nihāyāt al-amākin litaṣḥīḥ masāfāt al-masākin

by Jamil Ali ; edited by Fuat Sezgin ; in collaboration with Mazen Amawi, Carl Ehrig-Eggert, Eckhard Neubauer

（Publications of the Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science / edited by Fuat Sezgin, Islamic geography ; v. 26 . Mathematical geography and cartography ; v. 16）

Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, 1992

Other Title

Taḥdīd nihāyāt al-amākin

Translation of Bīrūnī's taḥdīd

Note

Reprint of the edition Beirut 1967

Includes index

Details

• NCID: BA19109789
• Country Code: gw
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: ara
• Place of Publication: Frankfurt am Main
• Pages/Volumes: xviii, 278 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QB144
  • DC : 526
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Spherical astronomy -- Early works to 1800
  • LCSH : Science -- Early works to 1800
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA13369674