Program

Research Programs: Translations

Period of Performance

6/30/1984 - 11/30/1985

Funding Totals

$28,000.00 (approved)
$28,000.00 (awarded)


Translation of a 14th century Arabic work on astronomy by Nasir al-Tusi

FAIN: RL-20578-84

F. Jamil Ragep
University of Oklahoma, Norman (Norman, OK 73019-3003)

To support an edition, translation, and commentary of the 14th century treatiseon astronomy by al-Tusi, who sought to reform the Ptolemaic system in much the same way as did Copernicus almost two centuries later.