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Antione Le Grand’s “Historia Naturae”, published 1673 in London. Le Grande (1629-1699) was a Franciscan friar and philosopher.

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LJS 478 - [Astronomical anthology]

This manuscript is a collection of astronomical treatises: 

Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī’s Kitāb fī istīʻāb al-wujūh al-mumkina fī ṣanʻat al-asṭurlāb (On the construction of the astrolabe); 

two treatises on “crab and drum” astrolabes now attributed to the 10th-century astronomer Nasṭūlus (or Basṭūlus); 

a treatise on an instrument for finding the direction of Mecca; 

a treatise on the ecliptic; 

a treatise on the compass.

It was written in Persia or Anatolia, in A.H. 625 (1228 CE). 

Click here to read more about it, or here for the facsimile! 

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