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266 - Baha' al-Din Muhammad ibn Husain al-'Amili, Khulasat al-Hisa…
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Baha' al-Din Muhammad ibn Husain al-'Amili, Khulasat al-Hisab (Essentials of Arithmetic), Safavid Iran, probably dated AH 111[0] / 1698 Arabic manuscript on paper with 7 lines of text per page in naskhi calligraphy in black ink, a few terms and numerous diagrams and tables of figures in red ink. Introduced by a sarlow frontispiece illuminated in gold and polychrome with mantling decoration surmounting a gilded cartouche. The name of the author, Baha' al-Din Muhammad, appears on the second page and the title of the book on the following page. The colophon on the last page again gives the author's name and the date 111[0] ?/ 1698. Several owner's stamps at the beginning of the book. Bound in brown morocco with border stamped with a vegetal frieze. 19.2 x 11.4 cm Wear, stains, small tears, a few holes, restorations, folds, handwritten notes added later, binding stained, worn, spine restored. Baha al-Din al-Amili (1547-1621) was a great mathematician, astronomer and philosopher of the Safavid period. Born in Lebanon in 1547, he emigrated to Iran as a child with his family. He soon became part of the Muslim intellectual milieu of Isfahan. He is known for co-founding the School of Isfahan and for his scientific research, which led him to suggest the possibility of the Earth's rotation in space. Many copies of his Khulasat al-Hisab are known. The oldest, dated AH 1056 / 1646, is in the British Library in London (IO Islamic 1748).
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