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The Light of the Stars—A Short Discourse by Ibn Al-Haytham

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

W. ‘Arafat  and
H. J. J. Winter
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The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , June 1971 , pp. 282 - 288
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12 al-kawākib.

13 al-qamar.

See Ibn al-Haytham's work entitled On the Light of the Moon (K. Kohl, op. cit.).

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14 lit. the meaning or significance, al-ma‘nā.

15 hijāly, crescent-shaped.

16 al-kawākib al-thābitah.

17 al-mutahayyirah.

18 Jawhar.

19 mumāssah.

20 dā'irat al-burūj. The Bodleian MS. has “al-burj”.

21 lit. when it opposes a “quarter” to the sun.

22 qit'ah.pl. qita‘.

23 lit. near to it, before and after it.

24 mustatīl.

25 In the Bodleian MS. the word “al-kawākib” is found—a scribe's error.

26 lit. eyesight.

27 Zuhara.

28 ‘Utārid.

29 See ref. 14.

30 See ref. 14.

31 See ref. 29.

32 See e.g. Winter, H. J. J. and ‘Arafat, W., “A Statement on Optical Reflection and ‘Refraction’ attributed to Nasir al-Dīn al-Tũsī”, Isis, xlii (1951), 138–142.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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