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§ 799. Euclid (see pl. ii p. 1).
Optics.
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Arabic translation: Taḥrīr al-Manāẓir, completed in 651/1253 by Naṣīr al-Dīn M. b. M. al-Ṭūsī (see Brockelmann i p. 511, Sptbd. i p. 930 (37), Krause p. 500).
Persian translation (doubtless of Ṭūsī’s Arabic version): Chanykov 146.
¶ § 800. Nawwāb ʿUmdat al-Daulah ʿUmdat al-Mulk M. Rafīʿ al-Dīn K̲h̲ān b. S̲h̲ams al-Umarāʾ Bahādur Amīr i Kabīr M. Fak̲h̲r al-Dīn K̲h̲ān died in 1294/1877. Rafīʿ al-baṣar, on geometry and optics, composed in 1250/ 1834–5, see pl. ii § 166.
§ 801. Appendix
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- Manāẓir i Turābīyah maʿrūf bah Tanwīr al-ʿuyūn, on elementary optics, by M. Turāb-ʿAlī b. M. G̲h̲ulām-ʿAlī Bulands̲h̲ahrī: Meerut 1875* (Ḍiyā’ī Pr. 16 pp.).
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- Tanwīr al-ʿuyūn: see Manāẓir i Turābīyah.
