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Avicenna’s Addendum to His Recension of Ptolemy’s ›Almagest‹
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Die Reihe Scientia Graeco-Arabica (SGA) widmet sich grundlegenden Texten der Wissenschaft und Philosophie der Antike und der islamischen Welt, die arabisch überliefert sind. Durch Bereitstellung kritischer Textausgaben und monographischer Untersuchungen werden der Forschung diejenigen Themenbereiche zugänglich gemacht, in denen sich die Wissenschaft zwischen der Antike und der Moderne kontinuierlich dargestellt und entwickelt hat. Die Textausgaben werden von Übersetzungen begleitet und durch inhaltliche Erläuterungen und philologische Anmerkungen erschlossen.
Publikationssprachen sind Englisch, Deutsch, Französisch und Italienisch.
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Topic
PhilosophySubtopic
Ancient HistoryTable of contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Key Figures
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- 1 Avicenna’s Addendum in Context
- From Ptolemy to Avicenna
- 2 The Dynamics of Heavenly Motion
- 3 Ibn Sinān’s Hypothesis for the Variable Obliquity of the Ecliptic
- 4 Variable Obliquity or Variable Solar Latitude?
- 5 The Sine Theorem
- 6 The Solar Year and the Motion of Solar Apogee
- 7 The Size of the Sun
- 8 al-Nayrīzī and Ptolemy’s Planetary Hypotheses
- 9 The Oscillating Eccentrics of the Lower Planets
- 10 The Oscillating Epicycles
- 11 Ptolemaic Planetary Parameters and New Observations
- al-Maqāla al-muḍāfa
- 12 Introduction to the Critical Edition
- 13 Text and Translation
- Glossary
- Bibliographical References
- Index
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