The Arabs and the stars : texts and traditions on the fixed stars, and their influence in medieval Europe /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kunitzsch, Paul
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
German
Series:Collected studies ; CS307.
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Table of Contents:
  • Star catalogues and star tables in mediæval Oriental and European astronomy
  • Das Fixsternverzeichnis in der "Persischen Syntaxis" des Georgios Chrysokokkes
  • Die arabische Herkunft von zwei Sternverzeichnissen in cod. Vat. gr.1056
  • Two star tables from Muslim Spain
  • New light on al-Battānī's Zīj
  • On the mediæval Arabic knowledge of the Star Alpha Eridani
  • Observations on the Arabic reception of the Astrolabe
  • Remarks regarding the terminology of the Astrolabe
  • Al-Khwārizmī as a source for the Sententie astrolabii
  • On the authenticity of the Treatise on the composition and use of the Astrolabe ascribed to Messahalla
  • The astronomer Abu ʼl-Ḥusayn al-Ṣūfī and his book on the constellations
  • Zum "liber hermetis de stellis beibeniis"
  • Stelle beibenie--al-kawākib al-biyābānīya. Ein Nachtrag
  • Die "Unterwetterstern" und die "Geomantie" des Zanātī
  • Zur Tradition der "Unterwettersterne"
  • Abū Maʻsār, Johannes Hispalensis und Alkameluz
  • al-Ḳuṭb, as an astronomical term
  • al-Madjarra
  • al-Manāzil
  • John of London and his unknown Arabic source
  • The star catalogue commonly appended to the Alfonsine tables
  • Peter Apian and 'Azophi' : Arabic constellations in Renaissance astronomy
  • A note on star names, especially Arabic, and their literature
  • Zur Namengebung Kairos (al-Qāhir = Mars?)
  • Der Sternhimmel in den "Dichterischen Vergleichen der Andalus-Araber"
  • Zeus in Bagdad. Zu einem Gedicht von Abū Nuwās
  • The "Description of the Night" in Gurgānī's Vīs u Rāmīn
  • Annotated index of nautical star names.