Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārsī’s additions to Book XIII of al-Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr

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Association Tunisienne des Sciences math & eacute; matiques

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This article is devoted to Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārsī’s (d. 1319) additions to some remarks contained in Book XIII of al-Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr uṣūl al-handasa, concerning the construction of a semi-regular polyhedron inscribed into a sphere using the movement as a way for the construction. This treatise is one treatise among ten found in a codex preserved at the Bibliothèque nationale de Tunis.

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