The planetary equatorium of Jamshīd Ghiyāth al-Dīn al-Kāshī (d. 1429): an edition of the anonymous Persian manuscript 75 <44b> in the Garett Collection at Princeton University; being a description of two computing instruments, the plate of heavens and the plate of conjunctions. With translation and commentary by E.S. Kennedy. - Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, c1960. - xv, 267 p. illus., diagrs., tables. 22 cm.

The author's work can be characterized as largely a translation into Persian of selected parts from al-Kāshī's Arabic text: Nuzhat al-ḥadāíq and its Samarqand recension.

Bibliography: p. 251-255.


Astronomical instruments.

522.68 / PLA 1960