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[Muvakkit] [Gedizli] Gedüsî Süleyman Murad Efendi, (?-1854).

[OTTOMAN ASTRONOMY and 'HOW TO USE ALMUCANTAR QUADRANT'] Terceme-i Gedüsî li'i-mukantarât (ve li'l-ceyb).

N.p. [H.: 1282], 1865

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Année
1865
Lieu d'édition
[Istanbul]
Auteur
[Muvakkit] [Gedizli] Gedüsî Süleyman Murad Efendi, (?-1854).
Pages
0
Éditeurs
N.p. [H.: 1282]
Format
8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Edition
1st Edition
Thème
ÖNT6 Tercüme-i Kedüzi Kedüsi Gedizi Gedüzi Ottoman Empire, History of astronomy Science Discovery and exploration., Discoveries in geography Description and travel notes Memories, Memoirs Spain Geographic Geographical discovery Discoveries, Pasha Pasa Pascha Osmanisches Reich Geschichte der Astronomie, Wissenschaft Entdeckung und Erforschung Geographie, Science
Description
Leather
Langues
Anglais
Reliure
Couverture rigide
Premiére Edition
Oui

Description

Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Modern aesthetic full leather bdg. in Ottoman traditional style. Contemporary notes and underlined sentences with pencil. On blank frontispiece, glued a paper includes latitudes of Islamic cities in Ottoman script. Otherwise a very good copy. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 15 cm). In Ottoman script. 39, [1] p. Hegira: 1282 = Gregorian: 1882. Süleyman Murad Efendi was an astronomer and muwaqqid according to 'Osmanli müellifleri' by Bursali Mehmed Tahir and Türkischer Bibliographischer Index. He died in 1270 Hegira (1854 Gregorian) in Gediz district of Kütahya city, his date of born is not known. This treatise mentions how to use the astronomical instrument "Rub'-i mukantârat" with its features. Rub'-i mukantarât (Almucantar quadrant) is an instrument that is used to measure angles up to 90°. Different versions of this instrument could be used to calculate various readings, such as longitude, latitude, and time of day. It was originally proposed by Ptolemy as a better kind of astrolabe. Several different variations of the instrument were later produced by medieval Muslim astronomers. One of the earliest accounts of a quadrant comes from Ptolemy's Almagest around ad 150. He described a "plinth" that could measure the altitude of the noon sun by projecting the shadow of a peg on a graduated arc of 90 degrees. Islamic astronomers in the Middle Ages improved upon these ideas and constructed quadrants throughout the Middle East, in observatories such as Marageh, Rey and Samarkand. At first these quadrants were usually very large and stationary, and could be rotated to any bearing to give both the altitude and azimuth for any celestial body. As Islamic astronomers made advancements in astronomical theory and observational accuracy they are credited with developing four different types of quadrants during the Middle Ages and beyond. The first of these, the sine quadrant, was invented by Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi in the 9th century at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad. Two tables in this book. Lithograph. Özege 20596 / 1. Only one copy located in OCLC in Library of Universita?tsbibliothek Bamberg. However this is a late edition. OCLC 632951562. First Edition. Extremely rare.