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Alfonsine Tables
Almagest influence
Arabic astrological tradition
Arabic Material
Arabic Original Text
Arabic Treatises
astrolabe studies
Author_Paul Kunitzsch
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Celestial Globe
Ecliptical Coordinates
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Fixed Stars
Hermannus Contractus
Islamic astronomy
Lunar Mansions
medieval scientific transmission
Millas Vallicrosa
Ptolemy's Catalogue
Ptolemy's Time
Sco
Sky
Star
Star Catalogue
star catalogues analysis
Star Names
Star Tables
Thabit Ibn Qurra
transmission of astronomical knowledge to Europe
Typ III
Typ XII
Ulugh Beg
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Product details
- ISBN 9780860782551
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 150 x 224mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 1989
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The influence of Arabic-Islamic science on European astronomy is still evident in the number of terms and star names which derive from the Arabic. These articles examine what the Arabs - and other peoples of the Islamic world - knew about the fixed stars and the constellations, and the astrological traditions they associated with them. Professor Kunitzsch shows how the early folk astronomy of the Arabs was radically altered, without being swept away, by the discovery of ancient Greek, also Indian and Persian, sources; by far the most important of these was the Almagest of Ptolemy. This knowledge was then transmitted to medieval Europe, to Byzantium and, especially, to Spain, as the articles go on to describe, and was a vital factor in stimulating the development of scientific thought in the West.
Paul Kunitzsch is Emeritus Professor of Arabic Studies in the Institute of Semitic Studies, the University of Munich, Germany.
