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Earlier axial solid for comparison, not the8/15 dome

الجسم المحوري الأقدم للمقارنة، لا قبة8/15

Modern ordinary axial paraboloid; Ibn al-Haytham's problem rotates the region about a different, perpendicular axis 1 2.

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Black outline of an axial paraboloid bowl, diameter d and height h; earlier-shape comparison, not Ibn al-Haytham's8/15 dome.
Steven Baltakatei Sandoval,27August2019, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Original unaltered, display-scaled only. Ordinary axial comparison solid, NOT the perpendicular-axis8:15 dome or historical manuscript. · Licence: CC-BY-SA · Open full image

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Sources

  1. Axial paraboloid diagram — Commons metadata , image
  2. Ideas of Calculus in Islam and India — Katz1995 , p.168
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islam.museum contributors. “Earlier axial solid for comparison, not the8/15 dome”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/media/paraboloid-dh-comparison/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-06.

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