See Kennedy, 145–7, Vernet, 191–2 and Sezgin, vi, 136–7, in the bibliography that follows, 2. See King, 153, G 24.
2.
See Kennedy and Faris, 20–38. See also ViladrichM., “An astronomical handbook from ninth-century Baghdad: Analysis of the Escorial Codex Arabic 972” (forthcoming).
3.
See Suter (1900), no. 16; Sezgin, vii, 162–4. Listed in the bibliography as Ibn Hibintā.
4.
Irani, 1–12.
5.
Brahmagupta, 59.
6.
Millàs, 42–44; Al-Hāshimī, 286ff.
7.
Neugebauer (1975), i, 83–84.
8.
Neugebauer (1962), 95–98.
9.
Those from the Almagest are from Neugebauer (1975), i, 208 and 212; the set for the Handy tables is from Stahlman, 147; and those for the Indians from Burgess, p. XLVIII.
10.
Values obtained from the corresponding Almagest theory are from Neugebauer (1975), i, 226; the set for the Handy tables is from Neugebauer (1975), ii, 1014.
11.
See Neugebauer (1962), 34–41.
12.
See values in Suter (1914), 138–67.
13.
Neugebauer (1962), 39, where the i's are labelled i′.
14.
Neugebauer and Pingree, 102.
15.
Kennedy, 152–3 and Debarnot, 43.
16.
Suter (1914), 132–4.
17.
Brahmagupta, The Khaṇḍakhādyaka of Brahmagupta, ed. and trans. by ChatterjeeB., i (Delhi, 1970).
18.
BurgessE., Translation of the Surya Siddhanta, a text-book of Hindu astronomy (Calcutta, 1935, reprinted from the edition of 1860).
19.
DebarnotM. T., “The Zīj of Ḥabash al-Ḥāsib: A Survey of Ms. Istanbul Yeni Cami 784/2”, in From deferent to equant: A volume of studies in the history of science in the ancient and medieval Near East in honor of E. S. Kennedy, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, d(= 500) (1987), 35–69.
20.
Al-Hāshimī, The book of the reasons behind astronomical tables, trans. and comm. by HaddadF. I.KennedyE. S. and PingreeD. (New York, 1981).
IraniR. A. K., “Arabic numeral forms”, Centaurus, iv (1955), 1–12 (reprinted in KennedyE. S., Studies on the history of Arabic sciences (Beirut, 1983), 710–21).
23.
KennedyE. S., A survey on Islamic astronomical tables, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, n.s., xlvi: 2 (1956).
24.
KennedyE. S. and FarisN., “The solar eclipse technique of Yaḥyā b. Abī Manṣūr”, Journal for the history of astronomy, i (1970), 20–38 (reprinted in Kennedy, Studies, 183–203).
25.
KingD. A., A survey of the scientific manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library (Winona Lake, Indiana, 1986).
26.
MillàsJ. M., Estudios sobre Azarquiel (Madrid-Granada, 1943–1950).
27.
NeugebauerO., The astronomical tables of al-Khwārizmī (Copenhagen, 1962).
28.
NeugebauerO., A history of ancient mathematical astronomy (3 vols, New York, 1975).
29.
NeugebauerO. and PingreeD., The Pañcasiddhāntikā of Varāhamihira (2 parts, Copenhagen, 1970–71).
30.
StahlmanW. D., “The astronomical tables of Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1291”, unpublished doctoral diss., Brown University, 1959. [Theon's text, but not the tables, has been object of new edition by MogenetJ., Le “Grand commentate” de Théon aux tables faciles de Ptolémée (Vatican City, 1985)].
31.
SezginF., Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, vi: Astronomie (Leiden, 1978), and vii: Astrologie, Meteorologie und Verwandtes (Leiden, 1979).
32.
SuterH., Die Mathematiker und Astronomer der Araber und ihre Werke, Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der mathematischen Wissenschaften, x (Leipzig, 1900). (Reprinted Amsterdam, 1980, and in idem, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Mathematik und Astronomie in Islam, i (Frankfurt, 1986), 9–285.)
33.
SuterH., Die astronomischen Tafeln des Muhammed ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī (Copenhagen, 1914). (Reprinted in idem, Beiträge, i (Frankfurt, 1986), 473–751.)
34.
VernetJ., “Las Tabulae Probatae”, in Homenaje a Millàs Vallicrosa, ii (Barcelona, 1956), 501–22. (Reprinted in idem, Estudios sobre historia de la ciencia medieval (Barcelona-Bellaterra, 1979), 191–212.)
