The Arabs and the Stars : Texts and Traditions on the Fixed Stars and Their Influence in Medieval Europe
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0860782557
ISBN-13
9780860782551
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Variorum
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 30th, 1989
Print length
356 Pages
Weight
732 grams
Dimensions
15.80 x 22.80 x 2.90 cms
Product Classification:
History of scienceAstronomy, space & time
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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.
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.
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