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The name Picatrix: Transcription or translation? (1990)

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al-Majriti, Abu al-Qasim Maslama ibn Ahmad Picatrix

Description On the name of the supposed author of the famous Arabic handbook of magic, sometimes ascribed to al-Majrīṭī.

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Authors & Contributors
Porreca, David
Attrell, Dan
Samsó, Julio
Lorch, Richard P.
Hogendijk, Jan P.
Carusi, Paola
Journals
Journal for the History of Arabic Science
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Publishers
Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Pennsylvania State University Press
Concepts
Spherical astronomy; astrometry
Esoteric thought
Occult sciences
Magic
Astrology
Measuring instruments
People
al-Majriti, Abu al-Qasim Maslama ibn Ahmad
Picatrix
Ptolemy
al-Khwārizmī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsā
Time Periods
Medieval
Places
Europe
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