Kitab Surat al-Ard
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KITĀB SŪRAT AL-ARḌ
(before 900 A.D.)
A book of astronomical tables found in al-Battānī's work. Part of an Arabic translation (now lost) of the Geography of Ptolemy.
Ed.: Al-Battānī, Opus Astronomicum ed. C.A. Nallino III, 234-241.
T.: MC 555 v A: 1
Longitude | Latitude | |
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Kūnīn (= Kūsh) above Miṣr | 62° | 36° |
Kūnīn (= Kūsh) the interior, beyond the Equator | 50° | 12° |
Sūwād (Sūwān?) of the Ḥabasha | 65° | 22° 30' |
Kusūmī (=Auxuma, Aksum) the town of the King of Kush | 65° | 11° |
Madīnat al-Tīb (the city of the spices) | 82° | 40° 30’ |
Dunqula the city of the Nubians | 63° | 14° 15' |