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YūnusIbnal-ḤasanAbū'Alī ibn 'Abd al-Raḥmān, al-Zīj al-Kabīr al-Ḥākimī (1008). Part of this Zīj is included in the Leiden manuscript (Cod. Or. 143). The portion of this manuscript containing the observational records (chapters 4, 5 and 6) and introduction to the Zīj has been published and translated by de PercevalCaussin A. P., Le Livre de la grande table Hakemite par Ebn Iounis (Paris, 1804). In the Leiden manuscript, eclipse records are included in pp. 94–96, 100–2 and 110–13, while in the Caussin edition, the corresponding pages are 81–95, 112–26 and 163–79.
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al-BattānīAbū‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Jābir ibn Sinān, al-Zīj al-Ṣābi’ (c. 910), published in its original Arabic and translated into Latin by NallinoC. A., al-Battānī sive Albatenii opus astronomicum (3 vols, Milan, 1899–1907). For the eclipse records (in Arabic), see iii, pp. 84–86.
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al-Bīrūnī, Abū al-Raiḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, Kitāb Taḥdīḍ Nihāyāt al-Amākin li-Taṣḥīḥ Masāfāt al-Masākin (1025), ed. by ṬanjīT. M. (Ankara, 1962); also ed. by BulgakovP. G. (Cairo, 1962). For the eclipse record, see the Ṭanjī edn, pp. 271–2, and the Bulgakov edn, p. 291.
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al-Bīrūnī, Abū al-Raiḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, al-Qānūn al-Mas 'ūdī (1031), ed. by 'd-DīnNizamu M. (3 vols, Hyderabad and Deccan, 1955). For the eclipse records, see vol. ii, pp. 740–2 and p. 632. The text of this work has been translated into English by 'AlīJ., The determination of the co-ordinates of positions for the correction of distances between cities (Beirut, 1967).
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AllenC. W., Astrophysical quantities (London, 1976), 124–5.
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al-Maqrīzī (Aḥmad ibn 'Alī Taqī al-Dīn) (1367–1442), Itti ‘āẓ al-Ḥunafā' bi-Akhbār al-A'immah al-Fāṭimiyyīn al-Khulafā’, I (Cairo, 1967), 250.
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GoldsteinB. R., “Medieval observations of solar and lunar eclipses”, Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences, xxix (1979), 101–56.
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ToomerG. J., Ptolemy's Almagest: A translation and annotation (London, 1984), 252.
