tailieunhanh - The Zij as - Sanjari of Gregory Chioniades: Text, Translation and Greek to Arabic Glossaey

This is the text of my doctoral dissertation, completed under the direction of the late Dr. David Edwin Pingree of Brown University. He worked extensively on this text and made countless corrections and suggestions. It is much more his work than mine. Suffice it to say that all errors the reader may encounter are mine alone. Whatever the reader finds useful or worthwhile in this text is Dr. Pingree's. Released under the GNU verbatim license quoted above. | Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire text are permitted worldwide without royalty in any medium provided this notice is preserved. Copyright 2004 by Joseph Leichter This is the text of my doctoral dissertation completed under the direction of the late Dr. David Edwin Pingree of Brown University. He worked extensively on this text and made countless corrections and suggestions. It is much more his work than mine. Suffice it to say that all errors the reader may encounter are mine alone. Whatever the reader finds useful or worthwhile in this text is Dr. Pingree s. Released under the GNU verbatim license quoted above. Email Joseph_Leichter@ The Zlj as-Sanjarl of Gregory Chioniades Text Translation and Greek to Arabic Glossary by Joseph Gerard Leichter . Queens College CUNY 1984 . Queens College CUNY 1987 . University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1992 Thesis Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Classics at Brown University PROVIDENCE RHODE ISLAND May 2004 Copyright 2004 by Joseph Gerard Leichter CONTENTS I Introduction 1 II Translation 18 Summary 19 1 The Known Epochs 21 The Nychthemeron the Month and the Year. 21 Nature of the Nychthemeron . 21 Nature of the Month. 21 Nature of the Year. 22 Epoch Month and Year -Nature and Knowledge. 23 Nature of the Epoch. 23 Arab Epoch. 24 Epoch of Muctadit. 24 Roman Epoch. 25 Persian Epoch. 25 Epoch of Malikshãh. 29 Epoch of Nebuchadnezzar. 29 Epoch of Philip. 29 Beginnings and Conversions of Epochs. 29 The Weekday on Which Years and Months Begin. 30 .