Books I and IV of Kūshyār ibn Labbān’s Jāmi‘ Zīj: An Arabic astronomical handbook by an eleventh-century Iranian scholar. (doctoral dissertation), Mathematical Institute, University of Utrecht, 2006.Also obtainable online from the digital archive of Utrecht University at:http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/2007-0109-200521/UUindex.html
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Benno Van Dalen, « Books I and IV of Kūshyār ibn Labbān’s Jāmi‘ Zīj: An Arabic astronomical handbook by an eleventh-century Iranian scholar. (doctoral dissertation), Mathematical Institute, University of Utrecht, 2006.Also obtainable online from the digital archive of Utrecht University at:http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/2007-0109-200521/UUindex.html », Abstracta Iranica, ID : 10.4000/abstractairanica.30802
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This two-volume doctoral dissertation contains an edition and translation of the first and last books of the important and popular astronomical handbook (zīj) by the Persian astronomer Kūšyār ibn Labbān al-Gīlānī, who lived around the year AD 1000. Contrary to many of his colleagues, Kūšyār included in his zīj not only an extensive set of tables (in Book 2) and explanations for their use (Book 1), but also an overview of cosmological aspects and the underlying planetary models (Book 3) as wel...