Original Title: Risālah fī istikhrāj-i jayb-i darajah-yi wāḥidah
A mathematical treatise by Qāḍīzādah Rūmī explaining the method of calculating the sine of one degree, based on the lost work of Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd Kāshānī. The text clarifies an important problem in the history of Islamic mathematics.
English Title:Treatise on the Calculation of the Sine of One Degree
Author: Mūsā b. Muḥammad Qāḍīzādah Rūmī (8th–9th century A.H.)
Editor & Translator: Fāṭimah Sawādī
Language: Persian
ISBN: 978-964-8700-67-1
Publication Year: 2008 (1387 A.H.)
Pages: 120
Format: PDF
Category: Treatises
Miras Maktoob Collection Code: 179
【Summary】
The calculation of the sine of one degree was one of the most challenging problems in medieval trigonometry. Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd Kāshānī (d. 832 A.H.) developed an innovative and highly accurate method for this calculation in a work titled Risālat al-Watar wa al-Jayb, which has unfortunately not survived.
The absence of Kāshānī’s original treatise, combined with Ulugh Beg’s (d. 853 A.H.) claim in the Zīj-i Gūrkānī to have devised a precise method for calculating the sine of one degree, created uncertainty regarding the origins of these techniques.
Qāḍīzādah Rūmī, a close colleague of Kāshānī at the Samarqand observatory, composed Risālah fī istikhrāj-i jayb-i darajah-yi wāḥidah to explain and analyze Kāshānī’s method. This work preserves a detailed account of Kāshānī’s approach and serves as a crucial source for understanding advanced trigonometric computation in the Islamic scientific tradition.
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