Al-Biruni's Treatise on Eclipses

Al-B?r?n?'sTreatise on Eclipses

Publisher: CASIS

ISBN: 9789834473228

Price: RM48.00

Pages: 300pp

Weight: 0.510kg

TreatiseVIII of al-B?r?n?’s al-Qan?n al-Mas‘?d?, which is one of the major works ofastronomy produced by the great polymath Ab? Ray?an al-B?r?n? (d. ca. 1050). Itwas written in the 1030s under the patronage of Sultan Mas‘?d of Ghazna (d.1040), whom al-B?r?n? dedicated his work to and thus bearing the Sul??n’s nameon the work. The work is intended to be as an astronomical guide book or areference book for the use of practicing 11th century astronomers andastrologers to solve any of the standard problems of astronomy known at thattime. It is a comprehensive work, comprised of eleven treatises on varioustopics of astronomy including detail calculation and mathematical problems ondaylight length, spherical and trigonometric problems, planetary motion andetc.