References for Ibn Yunus
- D A King, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830904759.html
Articles:
- A P Caussin de Perceval, Le livre de la grande table Hakémite, Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale 7 (1804), 16-240.
- W Hartner, Ptolemy and Ibn Yunus on solar parallax, Arch. Internat. Hist. Sci. 30 (105) (1980), 5-26.
- W Hartner, An unusual value for the length of the meridian degree : 66 1/2 miles, in Ibn Yunus' 'Hakimitic Zij', Centaurus 24 (1980), 148-152.
- D A King, Ibn Yunus' Very Useful Tables for Reckoning Time by the Sun, Archive for the History of Exact Sciences 10 (1973), 342-394.
- D A King, Ibn Yunus on lunar crescent visibility, J. Hist. Astronom. 19 (3) (1988), 155-168.
- D A King and W Hartner, Ibn Yunus and the meridian degree, Centaurus 26 (2-3) (1982/83), 217-218.
- D A King, Ibn Yunus and the pendulum : a history of errors, Arch. Internat. Hist. Sci. 29 (104) (1979), 35-52.
- D A King, A double-argument table for the lunar equation attributed to Ibn Yunus, Centaurus 18 (1973/74), 129-146.
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