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Title
A princely pandect on astronomy : Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī's Muʻīnīya Epistle and its appendix / Kaveh Niazi.
ISBN
9783030507619 (electronic bk.)
3030507610 (electronic bk.)
9783030507602 (print)
3030507602
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xix, 516 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-030-50761-9 doi
Call Number
QB23
Dewey Decimal Classification
520.955
Summary
This book presents an English-language translation of Risālā-yi Muīnīya, or the Muīnīya Epistle. Risālā-yi Muīnīya is one of the earliest known works of Nasīr al-Dīn Tūsī (1201-1274), an intellectual luminary of the 13th century CE. The work is notable for the choice of Tūsī's native Persian as the language of the text. In addition, Tūsī organized his volume into a four-part structure, which went on to become a popular template for the Islamic astronomers who succeeded him. This book helped ensure the patronage of Tūsī's courtly patrons during his decades-long stay with the Ismaīlīs, as well as the continuation of his remarkable career under the first Ilkhanid rulers of Persia. This translation helps make this notable treatise accessible to English language readers. It is among a handful of English translations of major astronomical works dealing with hay'a/cosmography in the Islamic world. Subsequently Tūsī was to pen his own commentary on the work (the Hall-i Mushkilāt-i Muīnīya, or A solution to the difficulties of the Muīnīya) and he used this occasion to discuss his celebrated mathematical formulation "the Tūsī Couple" (a concept that he merely hinted at in the Risālā-yi Muīnīya).
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 22, 2022).
Series
Archimedes (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; v. 58. 2215-0064
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783030507602
Preface
Part I. Introduction
Chapter 1 Tūsī's haya
Chapter 2 Tūsī as a Young Scholar
Chapter 3 On the Structure and Contents of Risāla-yi Muīnīya
Part II. Edition and Translation of Risāla-yi Muīnīya
Chapter 4 Book One: On the Introduction to this Science
Chapter 5 Two: On the Configuration of the Celestial Bodies
Chapter 6 Book Three: On the Configuration of the Earth and the Difference in the State of its Regions Due to the Difference in the State of the Celestial Bodies
Chapter 7 Book Four: On the Distances and Bodies
Part III. Tūsī's Commentary on Risāla-yi Muīnīya
Chapter 8 The Chapters. Appendices
Glossary
Bibliography
Index.
