Al-Isfizari
Abū Ḥātim al-Muẓaffar al-Isfazārī | |
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المظفر الاسفزاري | |
 Manuscript of Irshād dhawī al-cirfān ilā ṣinācat al-qaffān | |
| Academic work | |
| Era | Islamic Golden Age |
| Main interests | Mathematics, astronomy |
| Notable works | Irshād dhawī al-cirfān ilā ṣinācat al-qaffān |
Abū Ḥātim al-Muẓaffar al-Isfazārī (
Al-Isfazārī was a contemporary of the Persian
Umar al-Khayyam and the Persian astronomer Al-Khazini. Al-Isfazārī's main work, Irshād dhawī al-cirfān ilā ṣinācat al-qaffān (Guiding the Possessors of Learning in the Art of the Steelyard), sets out the theory of the steelyard balance with unequal arms. His other surviving works include a summary of Euclid's Elements, a text on geometrical measurements, and a treatise in Persian on meteorology.[citation needed
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Al-Isfazārī's corpus of mechanics is composed of two sets of texts, which have been published as Matn al-Muẓaffar al-Isfazārī fī cilmay al-aṯqāl wa’l-ḥiyal by the Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation.[citation needed]
References
Sources
- Abattouy, Mohammed (2007). "Wābkanawī: Shams al‐Munajjim [Shams al‐Dīn] Muḥammad ibn ҁAlī Khwāja al‐Wābkanawī [Wābkanawī]". In Hockey, Thomas; et al. (eds.). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer. pp. 577–578. ISBN 978-1-4419-9918-4.
Further reading
- Abattouy, Mohammed; Al-Hassani, Salim (17 November 2015). "The Mechanical Corpus of Al-Isfizārī in the Sciences of Weights and Ingenious Devices: New Arabic Texts in Theoretical and Practical Mechanics". Muslim Heritage. FSTC Ltd. Archived from the original on 1 February 2023. Retrieved 1 February 2023.