Article ID: CBB000007195

An unusual value for the length of the meridian degree: 66 1/2 miles, in Ibn Yūnus' Ḥākimitic zīj (1980)

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Description For a comment by David King see Centaurus, 1982-83, 26: 217-218.


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Authors & Contributors
King, David A.
Yuan, Min
Turner, Gerard L'Estrange
Turner, Anthony J.
Toomer, G. J.
Stautz, Burkhard
Journals
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Scientiarum Historia
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Nei Menggu Shifan Daxue Xuebao (Ziran Kexue Ban)
Publishers
Princeton University Press
Brieux
Concepts
Spherical astronomy; astrometry
Measuring instruments
Clocks and Watches
Mathematics
Astronomy
Spherical geometry
People
Ibn Yunus, Abu al-Hasan ‘Ali Ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman
Sacrobosco, Johannes de
Reinhold, Erasmus
Ptolemy
Philoponos, Joannes Grammaticus
Mercator, Gerardus
Time Periods
Medieval
Renaissance
Ancient
17th century
16th century
13th century
Places
Greece
Middle and Near East
China
British Isles
Mesopotamia
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