Format:
1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 508 pages)
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ISBN:
9789004387867
Series Statement:
Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004386303
Content:
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 ʿAlī 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 Astrolabe -- Chapter 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 Hayʾāt: 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" Retes -- Chapter 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 Astrolabes -- Epilogue -- Reconstruction of the Plate of Eclipses according to the Description by ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004383807
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Astrolabes in Medieval cultures Leiden : Brill, 2019 ISBN 9789004383807
Language:
English
Keywords:
Astrolabium
DOI:
10.1163/9789004387867
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