Arabic in the Sciences
The Sindhind Zij
زيج السند هند
Al-Khwarizmi's zij – astronomical tables built on an Indian work, the Sindhind – is lost in Arabic but survives in the Latin of the Englishman Adelard of Bath (c. 1126), made from the revision by the Andalusian astronomer Maslama al-Majriti. It probably holds the first sine tables, part of trigonometry, in Latin.
- Author
- Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (d. c. 847)
- Field
- Astronomy
- Arabic title
- زيج السند هند، بتنقيح مسلمة المجريطيّ
- Latin title
- Ezich Elkauresmi per Athelardum Bathoniensem ex arabico sumptus
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Sources
- H. Suter (ed.), Die astronomischen Tafeln des Muḥammed ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī (København, 1914)
- Marshall Clagett, «Adelard of Bath», Dictionary of Scientific Biography
- Sonja Brentjes, «Khwārizmī», Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
- موسوعة تاريخ العلوم العربية، إشراف رشدي راشد: ج١ ص٤٨ (مورلون)، وج٢ ص٦٧٧ و٦٨٠ (آلار)
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