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Title

Facsimile of LJS 407, Collection of astronomical texts

Authors

Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania LibrariesFollow

Date of this Version

2-7-2015

Files

Comments

Collection of astronomical works by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, which include material on sunset and sunrise, the size of the earth, the moon, the distance to the moon, the distance between the sun and the planets, movement of the spheres, and eclipses. Some marginal notes in another hand, affected by trimming.

Keywords

Astronomy--Early works to 1800 Codices, Anthologies, Diagrams, Handbooks, Manuscripts Arabic--15th century, Manuscripts Renaissance

See More at Penn in Hand

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5082672

Link to OPENN

http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs407.html

Recommended Citation

Porter, Dot, "Facsimile of LJS 407, Collection of astronomical texts" (2015). Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): EBooks. 94.
https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/94