Studies in Medieval Astronomy and Optics
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Hebrew Manuscripts
Hebrew Version
homocentric planetary models
Homocentric Spheres
Ibn Al Haytham
Ibn Qurra
Latin Hebrew Arabic translations
Latin Version
Levi Ben Gershom
Levi ben Gerson mathematics
Levi's Work
Lunar
Lunar Eclipse
Lunar Model
medieval optics astronomy transmission
medieval scientific manuscripts
Oblique Circle
pinhole camera theory
Pinhole Images
Sco
Sequitur Quod
solar diameter measurement
Solar Eclipse
Solar Parallax
Superior Planets
Synodic Month
Thabit Ibn Qurra
Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9780860789963
- Weight: 640g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Oct 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this selection of studies, J.L. Mancha explores aspects of the development of medieval optics and astronomy, including some medieval antecedents of the work of early modern astronomers. The articles deal with Latin, Hebrew and Arabic texts, and the process of translation and transmission of knowledge, and focus on three main themes. First, the theory and astronomical use of the pinhole camera in the 12th and 13th centuries; the texts edited here contain a solution to the problem of the formation of images cast by light through triangular apertures, equivalent to Kepler's, a description of the correct procedure for measuring solar apparent diameters using finite apertures, and a derivation of the Sun's eccentricity from its apparent diameters at apogee and perigee. Second, the characteristics of the Latin and Provençal versions of Levi ben Gerson's astronomical work, composed in collaboration with the author, as well as his tables and canons for finding syzygies and the mathematical methods used in the derivation of parameters. Third, different aspects of the survival of homocentric astronomy in the Middle Ages, especially al-Bitruji's model for trepidation and the technique for calculating the hippopede resulting from Eudoxan couples.
Professor J.L. Mancha directs a research unit in the History and Philosophy of the Physical and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Seville, Spain.
