The ‘Thābit-Version’ of Ptolemy’s Almagest in MS Dresden Db.87

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Dirk Grupe
Various historical sources contain references to an unknown Arabic version of Ptolemy’s Almagest which allegedly was produced by Thābit ibn Qurra. The authenticity of these records and the existence of such a text have long been doubted. In the present paper new evidence of a Thābit-version of the Almagest is presented. It suggests in particular a close relatedness between
that text and the incomplete Latin translation of the Almagest in MS Dresden Db.87.
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Almagest, Dresden Almagest, al-Nasawī, Ptolemy, revision, Thābit ibn Qurra

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Grupe, Dirk. “The ‘Thābit-Version’ of Ptolemy’s Almagest in MS Dresden Db.87”. Suhayl. Journal for the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islamic Civilisation, 2012, vol.VOL 11, pp. 147-53, http://raco.cat/index.php/Suhayl/article/view/267223.
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