The Solar Eclipse Technique of Yaḥyā B. Abī Manṣūr

For events in Yahyā's life, see Browne Edward G. , An abridged translation of the History of Tabaristan … (London, 1905), pp. 87, 147–9; Chejne Anwar G. , “The Boon-Companion in Early'Abbāsid Times”, Journal of the American Oriental Society, lxxxv (1965), 334–5; and Suter Heinrich , “Die Mathematiker und Astronomen der Araber und ihre Werke”, Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Mathematischen Wissenschaften, X. Heft (Leipzig, 1900), 8; concerning his zīj, see Kennedy E. S. , “A Survey of Islamic Astronomical Tables”, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, N. S., xl, pt. 2 (1950), 132, 145–7.

See Manitius K. , Ptolemaüs — Handbuch der Astronomie (second edition, Leipzig, 1963), i, 54.

See Kennedy E. S. and Muruwwa Ahmad , “Bīrūnī on the Solar Equation”, Journal of Near Eastern studies, xvii (1958), 118.

See Neugebauer O. , “The Astronomical Tables of al-Khwārizmī”, Historisk-filosofiske scrifter, Danske Videnskabernesfelskab, iv, no. 2 (1962), 121; also Goldstein Bernard , Ibn al-Muthanna's Commentary on the Astronomical Tables of al-Khwārizmi (New Haven, 1967), 238.

See Neugebauer O. , op. cit., 118 and 127.

See Goldstein Bernard R. , op. cit., 227. The authors thank the referee for references to the Sanskrit sources.

By Neugebauer O. , op. cit., 122.

Cf. Kennedy E. S. , The Planetary Equatorium of Jamshīd … (Princeton, 1960), 236.

Cf. Neugebauer O. , op. cit., 71, 121.

See Goldstein B. , op. cit., 236.

Op. cit., 121–6.

See Suter H. , op. cit., 173.