Lot 1468 Franz Woepcke. Über ein in der Königlichen …

Über ein in der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin befindliches arabisches Astrolabium. Mit drei Kupfertafeln. Berlin, Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften (für Dümmler), 1858. Titel, 31 S., + Tafeln. 4° Original-Verlagsbroschur (bedruckte Original-Umschläge).

Astronomie

Naturwissenschaften – Poggendorff II, 1353. - Erste Separatausgabe der grundlegenden Abhandlung des deutsch-französischen Orientalisten und Mathematikhistorikers Franz Woepcke (1826-1864) über das arabische Astrolabium der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin, das durch A. Sprenger der Sammlung geschenkt worden war. Der Text erschien zuerst in den Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin für das Jahr 1858 und wird hier in der vorliegenden separaten Ausgabe in den Originalumschlägen dargeboten. Die drei gestochenen Tafeln bilden das im Jahr 1029 in Toledo gefertigte arabische Astrolabium in Vorder- und Rückansicht ab, als Hersteller des Instruments gilt Muhammad ibn al-Saffar, einer der bedeutenden Vertreter der Toledaner Instrumentenbauschule des 11. Jahrhunderts, deren Astrolabien später in verschiedene europäische Sammlungen gelangten. Woepcke, der zu jener Zeit (1856-1858) als Lehrer für Mathematik und Physik am Französischen Gymnasium in Berlin wirkte, verband in seinen Schriften mathematikhistorische und orientalistische Kompetenz in seltener Weise, seine Arbeiten zu arabischen Astrolabien zählen neben seinen Ausgaben von Omar Khayyam und al-Karkhi zu seinen bedeutendsten Beiträgen zur Erforschung der arabischen Wissenschaftsgeschichte. - Ein wohlerhaltenes Exemplar in der originalen bedruckten Verlagsbroschur.

Natural Sciences – Astronomy. - With three engraved plates. Berlin, Royal Academy of Sciences (for Dümmler), 1858. Title, 31 pp., + plates. 4°. Original publisher's wrappers (printed original wrappers). Poggendorff II, 1353. - First separate edition of the seminal treatise by the German-French orientalist and historian of mathematics Franz Woepcke (1826-1864) on the Arabic astrolabe held in the Royal Library in Berlin, which had been donated to the collection by A. Sprenger. The text first appeared in the Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin for the year 1858, and is offered here in the present separate edition in the original wrappers. The three engraved plates depict, in front and rear view, the Arabic astrolabe made in Toledo in the year 1029, the instrument's maker is held to be Muhammad ibn al-Saffar, one of the leading representatives of the eleventh-century Toledan school of instrument-making, whose astrolabes later found their way into various European collections. Woepcke, who at that time (1856-1858) worked as a teacher of mathematics and physics at the French Gymnasium in Berlin, combined in his writings a historical mastery of mathematics with orientalist scholarship in a manner rarely matched, his works on Arabic astrolabes rank, alongside his editions of Omar Khayyam and al-Karkhi, among his most significant contributions to the study of the history of Arabic science. - A fine copy in the original printed publisher's wrappers.

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