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Darrera modificació: 2008-08-03
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Kennedy, Edward S., Astronomy and Astrology in the Medieval Islamic World, Aldershot, Ashgate Variorum (Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS600), 1998, 366 pp.
- Resum
- This collection of studies by Edward Kennedy looks first at questions of spherical astronomy, celestial mapping and planetary models, and then deals with astrological calculations. Throughout the author emphasises the importance of advances in mathematics for understanding the development of medieval Arabic sciences. This collection of studies based on previously unexploited manuscript sources in Arabic and Persian. They were written by authors from the 9th through the 15th centuries, whose locations reached from south China in the east through Central Asia, the Middle and Near East, and North Africa, to Spain in the west. The topics are predominately astronomical rather than astrological. The former include eclipse predictions, problems in spherical astronomy, non-ptolemaic planetary theory, and the achievements of Ulugh Beg and his observatory. Astrological subjects treated are the method of calculating the ascendant, and how to determine astrological houses and lots. An astrological history of the career of Genghis Khan is also described.
- Matèries
- Astronomia i astrologia
Arabisme
Àrab
- Notes
- Conté:
I: Habash al-Hasib on the melon astrolabe
II: Two topics from an astrological manuscript: Sindhind days and planetary latitudes
III: Al-Sufi on the celestial globe
IV: Applied mathematics in the 10th century: Abu’ l-Wafa’ calculates the distance Baghdad-Mecca
V: Two mappings proposed by Biruni
VI: The spherical case of the Tusi couple
VII: Spherical astronomy in Kashi’s Khaqani Zij
VIII: Two medieval approaches to the equation of time
IX: Ibn al-Haytham’s determination of the meridian from one solar altitude
X: Ulugh Beg as scientist
XI: The heritage of Ulugh Beg
XII: Planetary theory: late Islamic and Renaissance
XIII: Two tables from an Arabic astronomical handbook for the Mongol viceroy of Tibet
XIV: Eclipse predictions in Arabic astronomical tables prepared for the Mongol viceroy of Tibet
XV: Al-Biruni’s treatise on astrological lots
XVI: Ibn Mu’adh on the astrological houses
XVII: An astrological history based on the career of Genghis Khan
XVIII: Treatise V of Kashi’s Khaqani Zij: determination of the ascendent
XIX: The astrological houses as defined by medieval Islamic astronomers
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