This volume presents comprehensive investigations into various facets of observational astronomy during the medieval Islamic period, spanning from the ninth to the seventeenth centuries.
This volume presents comprehensive investigations into various facets of observational astronomy during the medieval Islamic period, spanning from the ninth to the seventeenth centuries.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
S. Mohammad Mozaffari is an Iranian historian of medieval astronomy currently serving at the Research Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics of Mar¿gha (RIAAM), University of Maragheh, in Iran. He is also a research associate in the project of the Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Munich). His primary research focus lies in the growth and development of observational astronomy, particularly its interplay with theoretical astronomy, during the medieval Islamic period. He is an active member of the International Astronomical Union and holds editorial roles as an advisory editor for the Journal for the History of Astronomy, an associate editor for SCIAMVS (Sources and Commentaries in the Exact Sciences), and an associate editor for the Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part I. Solar Astronomy Chapter 1. Limitations of Methods: The Accuracy of the Values Measured for the Earth's/Sun's Orbital Elements in the Middle East, 800-1500 ce Part II. Lunar Astronomy and Theory of Eclipses Chapter 2. How Natural Phenomena Were Justified in Medieval Science: The Situation of Annular Eclipses in Medieval Astronomy Chapter 3. W bkanaw 's Observation and Calculations of the Annular Solar Eclipse of 30 January 1283 Chapter 4. B r n 's Examination of the Path of the Centre of the Epicycle in Ptolemy's Lunar Model Chapter 5. Solar and Lunar Observations at Istanbul in the 1570s Part III. Planetary Astronomy Chapter 6. Four-Point Method for Determining the Eccentricity and the Direction of the Apsidal Lines of the Sun and Superior Planets Chapter 7. Planetary Latitudes in Medieval Islamic Astronomy: An Analysis of the Non-Ptolemaic Latitude Parameter Values in the Maragha and Samarqand Astronomical Traditions Chapter 8. Holding or Breaking with Ptolemy's Generalization: Considerations about the Motion of the Planetary Apsidal Lines in Medieval Islamic Astronomy Chapter 9. Astronomical Observations at the Maragha Observatory in the 1260s-70s Part IV. Stellar Astronomy Chapter 10. A Medieval Bright Star Table: The Non-Ptolemaic Star Table in the lkh n Z j Part V. Observational Instrumentation Chapter 11. Gh z n Kh n's Astronomical Innovations at Mar gha Observatory
Introduction Part I. Solar Astronomy Chapter 1. Limitations of Methods: The Accuracy of the Values Measured for the Earth's/Sun's Orbital Elements in the Middle East, 800-1500 ce Part II. Lunar Astronomy and Theory of Eclipses Chapter 2. How Natural Phenomena Were Justified in Medieval Science: The Situation of Annular Eclipses in Medieval Astronomy Chapter 3. W bkanaw 's Observation and Calculations of the Annular Solar Eclipse of 30 January 1283 Chapter 4. B r n 's Examination of the Path of the Centre of the Epicycle in Ptolemy's Lunar Model Chapter 5. Solar and Lunar Observations at Istanbul in the 1570s Part III. Planetary Astronomy Chapter 6. Four-Point Method for Determining the Eccentricity and the Direction of the Apsidal Lines of the Sun and Superior Planets Chapter 7. Planetary Latitudes in Medieval Islamic Astronomy: An Analysis of the Non-Ptolemaic Latitude Parameter Values in the Maragha and Samarqand Astronomical Traditions Chapter 8. Holding or Breaking with Ptolemy's Generalization: Considerations about the Motion of the Planetary Apsidal Lines in Medieval Islamic Astronomy Chapter 9. Astronomical Observations at the Maragha Observatory in the 1260s-70s Part IV. Stellar Astronomy Chapter 10. A Medieval Bright Star Table: The Non-Ptolemaic Star Table in the lkh n Z j Part V. Observational Instrumentation Chapter 11. Gh z n Kh n's Astronomical Innovations at Mar gha Observatory
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