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Astronomy and Astrology in the Medieval Islamic World
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Publisher's Note
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- I Ḥabash al-Ḥāsib on the Melon Astrolabe
- II Two Topics from an Astrological Manuscript: Sindhind Days and Planetary Latitudes
- III Al-Ṣūfī on the Celestial Globe
- IV Applied Mathematics in the Tenth Century: Abu'l-Wafā' Calculates the Distance Baghdad-Mecca
- V Two Mappings Proposed by Bīrūnī
- VI The Spherical Case of the Ṭüsī Couple
- VII Spherical Astronomy in Kashi's Khāqānī Zīj
- 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-bīrūnī's Treatise On Astrological Lots
- XVI Ibn Mu⊂ĀDh On the Astrological Houses
- XVII An Astrological History Based on the Career of Genghis Khan
- XVIII Treatise V of kāshī's Khāqānī Zīj: Determination of the Ascendent
- XIX The Astrological Houses as Defined by Medieval Islamic Astronomers
- Index