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First published as a special issue of the journal Medieval Encounters (vol. 23, 2017), this volume, edited by Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Charles Burnett, Silke Ackermann, and Ryan Szpiech, brings together fifteen studies on various aspects of the astrolabe in medieval cultures. The astrolabe, deve...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rodríguez Arribas, Josefina (Editor ), Burnett, Charles (Charles S. F.) (Editor ), Ackermann, Silke (Editor ), Szpiech, Ryan (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
Temas:
Astrolabes > History.
Astronomical instruments > History.
Nautical instruments > History.
Astrolabes > Histoire.
Astronomie > Instruments > Histoire.
Instruments nautiques > Histoire.
NATURE > Sky Observation.
Astrolabes
Astronomical instruments
Nautical instruments
Astrolabis.
Instruments astronòmics.
Història de la ciència.
History
Llibres electrònics.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; Contents; Preface to the New Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures; Introduction; Hic Sunt Dracones-Astrolabe Research Revisited; Chapter 1 Astrolabes as Eclipse Computers: Four Early Arabic Texts on Construction and Use of the Ṣafīḥa Kusūfiyya; Chapter 2 The Astrolabe Finger Ring of Bonetus de Latis: Study, Latin text, and English Translation with Commentary; Chapter 3 Some Features of the Old Castilian Alfonsine Translation of ʻAlī Ibn Khalaf's Treatise on the Lámina Universal
  • Chapter 4 From the Celestial Globe to the Astrolabe: Transferring Celestial Motion onto the Plane of the AstrolabeChapter 5 Knowledge in Motion: An Early European Astrolabe and Its Possible Medieval Itinerary; Chapter 6 A Monumental Astrolabe Made for Shāh Jahān and Later Reworked with Sanskrit Legends; Chapter 7 Saphaeae and Hayʼāt: The Debate between Instrumentalism and Realism in Al-Andalus; Chapter 8 Astrolabes on Parchment: The Astrolabes Depicted in Alfonso X's Libro Del Saber De Astrología and Their Relationship to Contemporary Instruments
  • Chapter 9 Fit for a King: Decoding the Great Sloane Astrolabe and Other English Astrolabes with "Quatrefoil" RetesChapter 10 European Astrolabes to ca. 1500: An Ordered List; Chapter 11 Too Many Arabic Treatises on the Operation of the Astrolabe in the Medieval Islamic World: Athīr Al-Dīn Al-Abharī's Treatise on Knowing the Astrolabe and His Editorial Method; Chapter 12 Changing the Angle of Vision: Astrolabe Dials on Astronomical Clocks; Chapter 13 Astrolabes for the King: The Astrolabe of Petrus Raimundi of Barcelona
  • Chapter 14 A New Approach to the Star Data of Early Planispheric AstrolabesEpilogue; Reconstruction of the Plate of Eclipses according to the Description by Alī ibn ʻĪsā; Index

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