ملخص الجهاز:
AL-BIRUNJ (His life, andhis works) I THE full name of Al-Birfmi is 'Abu Rihan Muhammad bin Ahmed Al-Birftni', and in Islamic countries he is known by the name of Abf) Rihfin.
Professor Sachau has himself published two of the works of Al-Biruni with their English translations; (1) The History of India, and (2) The Chronology of Oriental people r~; l~J I J lj l.
He expressed his regret to me that the complete manuscript of the History of India was not available in his younger days and his published edition was only a fragment of the book.
Professor Sachau is now dead, but I am confident that an Arabic Scholar interested in the History of India will one day complete the work and publish the full text of this valuable book.
' 0 - The Arabic Scholars and Astronomers have constantly been demanding the translation ofQanun Mos'udi, and the Paris Academy of Science has twice passed resolutions urging the need for the publication of th is book.
By the comparison of these tables with the modern position of heavenly bodies the astronomers were able to discover the minute motion in the orbit of the moon called secular inequality, and its value is less than 10 seconds in a century.
While Al-Blrunt was collecting materials for his books, " India " and the Qanun, he also translated the important works .
~ In his astronomical book, Qanun Mos'udi, Al-Biruni always deals with a .