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Benno Van Dalen, « « Kūshyār ibn Labbān’s glossary of astronomy ». Sciamvs, 7, 2006, pp. 145-174. », Abstracta Iranica, ID : 10.4000/abstractairanica.30812
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This article presents an edition and translation of a useful chapter of the Jāmi‘ Zīj (ca. AD 1025), the Arabic astronomical handbook with tables by the Persian astronomer Kūšyār ibn Labbān (see also review 304). This chapter, number 31 of Book III in the Zīj, but also distributed separately, contains a glossary of 131 numbered astronomical terms with definitions or descriptions. There is only a small number of other zīj-es with listings of technical terms, the Ḫāqānī Zīj by al-Kāšī (ca. AD 1...