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Liber de orbe

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Liber de orbe was a Latin translation made in 1130s CE of an Arabic work attributed to the 8th century astrologer Mashallah ibn Athari.

The work's main topic is cosmology and is considered as one of the earliest works on Aristotelian physics available in Latin.[1]

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References

  1. ^ MIMURA, TARO (30 October 2014). "The Arabic original of (ps.) Māshā'allāh's Liber de orbe: its date and authorship". The British Journal for the History of Science. 48 (2): 321–352. doi:10.1017/S0007087414000910. PMID 25921684.