F.
Jamil RagepF.
Jamil RagepṬūsī’s Memoir on Astronomy
Epistles of The Brethren of
Purity: On Astronomia
Islamic Astronomy and
Copernicus
I.117, line 19: الهار => النهار
I.189, line 8: تنتبق => تنطبق
I.193, line 13: المنتهي => المنتهى
I.195, line 16: علي => على
I.201, 2 lines from bottom: […/12/ => β […/12/
I.233, line 25: دائره => دائرة
I.241, line 4: الاوّل => الأوّل
I.291, line 16: جعلة => جعله
I.299, line 4: للاّفق => للأفق
I.319, line 24: مِثْلاَ=> مِثْلا
I.329, line 20: أجزءا=> أجزاء
I.339, line 3: الفاً=> ألفاً
Additional Corrections to Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s Memoir on Astronomy:
I.4: 18 Dhū al-Ḥijja 672 H [add Monday]
I.124[6]: an occupant=>an occupant at rest
===============================================Corrected translations of the Persian poems on pp. 64-65 in the Epistles of The Brethren of Purity: On Astronomia: An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistle 3, ed. and trans. F. Jamil Ragep and Taro Mimura (Oxford: Oxford University Press, in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2015). [With thanks to Sajjad Nikfahm-Khubravan for his invaluable assistance in editing and translating these verses.]
(p. 64)
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If you wish death not to find you |
If you wish to become immune from death |
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Do not seek in vain a refuge underground |
But ascend to the heavens without stairs |
(p. 65)
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Blessed are the Sun, Venus, and the Moon |
Since they never become corrupt |
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Each moving in a single way, on its own |
So that they never leave their unique path |
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They move with grace and power |
Never departing from their proper path |
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The stars are as though like kings |
The essence of the Sun being the king of kings |
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They neither sleep nor are preoccupied |
Neither do they organize armies and wars |
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They are friends next to each other, face to face |
Each gazing upon the others |
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Corrections to the printed version of Islamic Astronomy and Copernicus (Ankara: Turkish Academy of Sciences Publications, 2022). [Note that these corrections have been incorporated into the online version, available here: https://tuba.gov.tr./files/yayinlar/bilim-ve-dusun/TUBA-978-625-8352-02-3.pdf ]
p. iii: iv=>v; vii=>ix
p. x: Memoir on Astronomy => Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s Memoir on Astronomy
p. xiv: Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s Memoir on Astronomy => Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s Memoir on Astronomy
p. 24: 50=>52 (bottom of page)
p. 25: 51=>53 (bottom of page)
p. 26: 58=>54 (bottom of page)
p. 27: 59=>55 (bottom of page)
p. 39: Concerning the Supposed Dependence of Astronomy upon Philosophy=> Freeing Astronomy from Philosophy An Aspect of Islamic Influence on Science (header)
p. 41: Concerning the Supposed Dependence of Astronomy upon Philosophy=> Freeing Astronomy from Philosophy An Aspect of Islamic Influence on Science (header)
pp. 43-44: replace with these pages: Substitute_for_43-44.pdf
p. 51: add 129 (bottom of page)
p. 190: replace with this page: Substitute_for_190.pdf
p. 207, fn. 21: the full footnote should read:
21 For a summary, see G. Saliba, “
Arabic planetary theories after the eleventh century AD ”, in R.
Rashed (ed.), Encyclopedia of the history of Arabic science, 3 vol.
(London, 1996), I, 58-127. On the “ Eudoxan-couple ” in Islam, see
F. J. Ragep, “ Ibn al-Haytham and Eudoxus: The revival of
homocentric modeling in Islam ”, in C. Burnett et al. (ed.), Studies
in the history of the exact sciences in honour of David Pingree
(Leiden, 2004), p. 786-809. An overview of the Ṭūsī-couple and its
cross-cultural transmission can be found in F. J. Ragep, “ From Tūn
to Toruń: The twists and turns of the Ṭūsī-couple ”, in R. Feldhay
and F. J. Ragep (ed.), Before Copernicus: The cultures and contexts
of scientific learning in the fifteenth century (Montreal, 2017), p.
161-97.
p. 257: replace with this page: Substitute_for_257.pdf
p. 265: replace with this page: Substitute_for_265.pdf
INDEX: for an updated and corrected version, go to https://islamsci.mcgill.ca/Jamil/TUBA-978-625-8352-02-3.pdf#page=372