A Little Known Paper by Professor Fuat Sezgin on the Meridian Instrument of Ibn al-Haytham

Jan Hogendijk

doi:10.26650/PB/AA08.2023.002.009

A Little Known Paper by Professor Fuat Sezgin on the Meridian Instrument of Ibn al-Haytham

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When Fuat Sezgin came to Istanbul in 1943, he became a student of mathematics and engineering, only changing to Oriental Studies after meeting Hellmut Ritter. We will analyze a paper which Fuat Sezgin published in 1986 and which is a witness of his mathematical abilities. The paper includes an edition of a mathematically difficult text by Ibn al-Haytham which Sezgin reconstructed from a unique Arabic manuscript written with very few diacritical marks. In this treatise, Ibn al-Haytham discusses the theoretical and practical aspects of an instrument which he produced for determining the meridian with utmost accuracy.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The second international Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin Symposium on History of Science in Islam Proceedings Book
Subtitle of host publication	7-9 October 2021
Editors	Mehmet Cüneyt Kaya, Nihal Özdemir, Gürsel Aksoy
Place of Publication	Istanbul
Publisher	Istanbul University Press
Pages	139-146
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	978-605-07-1305-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.26650/PB/AA08.2023.002.009
Publication status	Published - 24 Mar 2023

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Fuat Sezgin
Ibn al-Haytham
meridian
astronomy
astronomical instrument

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Hogendijk, J. (2023). A Little Known Paper by Professor Fuat Sezgin on the Meridian Instrument of Ibn al-Haytham. In M. Cüneyt Kaya, N. Özdemir, & G. Aksoy (Eds.), The second international Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin Symposium on History of Science in Islam Proceedings Book: 7-9 October 2021 (pp. 139-146). Istanbul University Press. https://doi.org/10.26650/PB/AA08.2023.002.009

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Hogendijk, J 2023, A Little Known Paper by Professor Fuat Sezgin on the Meridian Instrument of Ibn al-Haytham. in M Cüneyt Kaya, N Özdemir & G Aksoy (eds), The second international Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin Symposium on History of Science in Islam Proceedings Book: 7-9 October 2021. Istanbul University Press, Istanbul, pp. 139-146. https://doi.org/10.26650/PB/AA08.2023.002.009

A Little Known Paper by Professor Fuat Sezgin on the Meridian Instrument of Ibn al-Haytham. / Hogendijk, Jan.
The second international Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin Symposium on History of Science in Islam Proceedings Book: 7-9 October 2021. ed. / Mehmet Cüneyt Kaya; Nihal Özdemir; Gürsel Aksoy. Istanbul: Istanbul University Press, 2023. p. 139-146.

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