The Arabs and the Stars: Texts and Traditions on the Fixed Stars and Their Influence in Medieval Europe

ISBN-13: 9780860782551 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 356 str.

Paul Kunitzsch

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; Star catalogues and star tables in medieval 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-Battani’s Zij; On the medieval Arabic knowledge of the star Alpha Eridani; Observations on the Arabic reception of the astrolabe; Remarksregarding the terminology of the astrolabe; Al-Khwarizmi 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 ‘l-Husayn al-Sufi and his book on the constellations; Zum ‘liber hermetis de stellis beibeniis’; Neues zum ‘liber hermetis de stellisbeibeniis’; Stelle beibenie - al-kawakib al biyabaniya. Ein NAchtrag; Die ‘Unwettersterne’ und die ‘Geomantie’ des Zanati; Zur Tradition der ‘Unwettersterne’; Abu Ma’sar, Johannes Hispalensis und Alkameluz; al-Kutb, as an astronomical term; al-Madjarra; al-Manazil; 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-Qahir = Mars?); Der Sternhimmel in der ‘Dichterischen Vergleichen der Andalis-Araber’; Zeus in Bagdad. Zu einem Gedicht von Abu Nuwas; The ‘description of the night’ in Gurgani’s Vis u Ramin; Annotated index of nautical star names; Indexes.

O autorze

Paul Kunitzsch is Emeritus Professor of Arabic Studies in the Institute of Semitic Studies, the University of Munich, Germany.