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Astronomy

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 89 Collections and/or Records:

Or Ms 396: تحریر المجستي Taḥrīr al-Mijistī, 1011 A.H., 1602 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 396
Scope and Contents

A slightly defective copy of Nasīr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (died 672 A.H., 1274 C.E.) edition of the Arabic version of Almagest by Claudius Ptolemy (c.100–170 C.E.), a 2nd-century Greek-language treatise on mathematics and astronomy concerning the planetary paths and motions of the stars.


The present copy contains many astronomical tables and diagrams; headings in red; an innumerable amount of glosses on the margin.

Dates: 1011 A.H.; 1602 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 397: تحریر المجستي Taḥrīr al-Mijistī, undated copy (original text composed 13th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 397
Scope and Contents A defective copy of Nasīr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (died 672 A.H., 1274 C.E.) edition of the Arabic version of Almagest by Claudius Ptolemy (c. 100 – 170 C.E.), a 2nd-century Greek-language treatise on mathematics and astronomy concerning the planetary paths and motions of the stars.In the present copy the tables are left blank. Of the 13 articles, or sections of the work, only six are marked here. This may be due to a lacuna. The first eight...
Dates: undated copy (original text composed 13th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 398 شرح تذکرة الطوسي Sharḥ Tadhkirat al-Ṭūsī, 1146 A.H., 1733 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 398
Scope and Contents

A copy of al-Sayyid al-Sharīf 'Alī al-Jurjānī's (died 816 A.H., 1413 C.E.) Arabic commentary on elements of astronomy by Nasīr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (died 672 A.H., 1274 C.E.). Text and diagrams in red.

Dates: 1146 A.H.; 1733 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 417: تسهیل زیج محمّدشاهی Tashīl-i Zīj-i Muḥammad-shāhī, undated (original text compiled 17-18th Cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 417
Scope and Contents Explanations of the astronomical tables of Muḥammad Shāh (drawn up in the reign of the Emperor Muḥammad Shāh, 1131-1161 A.H., 1719-1748 C.E.) by Bin ‘Azīm al-Dīn Muḥammad Khān ‘Abdallāh, called Mahārat Khān. He divided his work into a muqaddimah (introduction) and five maqālahs (articles/chapters), of which this copy contains only the first three.A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library by...
Dates: undated (original text compiled 17-18th Cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 729: Pocket Ruzname (almanac) of Şeyh Vefa, c. 1091 A.H., c. 1680 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 729
Scope and Contents This manuscript is a copy of the perpetual calendar traditionally known as the Ruzname ("almanac") of Şeyh Vefa. It is comprised mainly of tables for calendar conversion with instructions in Ottoman Turkish (in Arabic script). The volume contains eight coloured discs, one of which marks the qibla, or the direction towards the Kaaba in the Sacred Mosque in Mecca (pictured at the centre of the disc). Two of the other discs are volvelles, i.e.,...
Dates: c. 1091 A.H.; c. 1680 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Oratio de transitu lucis a [Jupiter] ad [Saturn], 1690

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [193]
Scope and Contents

Edinburgh graduation speech, in Gregory's hand, of one William Cooper, concerning light rays passing close by Jupiter and Saturn.

Dates: 1690
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Orbita Planetaria Cassiniana ab Auctore missa 1699, 1699

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [116]
Scope and Contents

Jacque Cassini met Gregory in Oxford in March 1699, and gave him this writeup of his father Jean Dominique's famous 1693 planetary orbit. This was the first Gregory had seen of it, and his excited notes append the foot of the document.

Dates: 1699
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Papers in geography, science, and letters, 1743-1783

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Identifier: Coll-205/2/3 (Dc.1.59)
Scope and Contents Extracts: some classes of herbs; Fundamenta Agroslographia (1781); Shell marle (1783); Plants growing on Inch Colm; Observable stars, with map of certain constellations (on reverse of disused accounts work); alchemy (for one Mr Mackenzie); balloon trips in France; Fortification (with drawing), from Gentleman's Magazine, 1743; Forsler's round-the-world trip, transcribed ca. 1780; Phlogisticated air, by Mr Scheele, transcribed 1782; What became of various academics by 1784; The downfall of...
Dates: 1743-1783
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Dr. John Walker / Papers on History, Geography, Science, Natural History, Parish Management and other matters

Photographs at Mullard Radioastronomy Observatory, Cambridge, 1957 or after

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Identifier: Coll-37/H.32
Scope and Contents

The material consists of photographs at Mullard Radioastronomy Observatory, Cambridge. The group includes O. R. Frisch and M. Ryle.

Dates: 1957 or after
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Non-print material / Photographs of Edward Appleton, colleagues and friends

Physical Astronomy, c1804

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Identifier: Coll-204/30
Scope and Contents

Volume consists of lecture notes in astronomy.

Dates: c1804
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Lecture Notes of John Robison

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