Arabic Astronomy in Sanskrit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arabic Astronomy in Sanskrit write by ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Birǧandī. This book was released on 2002. Arabic Astronomy in Sanskrit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides the first presentation of the bilingual textual material that illustrates the transmission of Islamic astronomy to scientists of the Indian Sanskritic tradition. It includes editions of the chapter of the "Tadhkira" in which the mid-thirteenth century Persian astronomer, Nas?r al-d?n al- s? discussed the new solutions that he devised to overcome certain technical problems in the lunar and planetary models of Ptolemaic astronomy and of the learned commentary composed by al-Birjand? in the early sixteenth century together with the Sanskrit translation of both made by Nayanasukha at Jaipur in 1729. An English translation of the Arabic texts and a commentary discussing their technical meanings and the deviations from them in the Sanskrit version together with a glossary of the Arabic and Sanskrit technical vocabulary conclude the volume.
Arabic Astronomy in Sanskrit
Arabic Astronomy in Sanskrit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arabic Astronomy in Sanskrit write by Takanori Kusuba. This book was released on 2002. Arabic Astronomy in Sanskrit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Islamic Astronomy in Sanskrit
Islamic Astronomy in Sanskrit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Islamic Astronomy in Sanskrit write by David Edwin Pingree. This book was released on 1978*. Islamic Astronomy in Sanskrit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Survey of Islamic Astronomical Tables
A Survey of Islamic Astronomical Tables - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Survey of Islamic Astronomical Tables write by Edward Stewart Kennedy. This book was released on 1956. A Survey of Islamic Astronomical Tables available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The source material for the study of medieval oriental astronomy consists of Byzantine Greek, Sanscrit, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, and Turkish astronomical and astrological manuscripts. If one desires to build up a detailed picture of Islamic astronomy, one can choose material from these available manuscripts. Of these manuscripts it is possible to isolate a group of works, the "zijes". A "zij" consists of the numerical tables and accompanying explanation sufficient to measure time and to compute planetary and stellar positions, appearance, and eclipses. This paper is a survey of the number, distribution, contents, and relations between "zijes" written in Arabic or Persian during the period from the 8th through the 15th centuries. Illustrations. Oversize.
A History of Arabic Astronomy
A History of Arabic Astronomy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Arabic Astronomy write by George Saliba. This book was released on 1995-07-01. A History of Arabic Astronomy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A History of Arabic Astronomy is a comprehensive survey of Arabic planetary theories from the eleventh century to the fifteenth century based on recent manuscript discoveries. George Saliba argues that the medieval period, often called a period of decline in Islamic intellectual history, was scientifically speaking, a very productive period in which astronomical theories of the highest order were produced. Based on the most recent manuscript discoveries, this book broadly surveys developments in Arabic planetary theories from the eleventh century to the fifteenth. Taken together, the primary texts and essays assembled in this book reverse traditional beliefs about the rise and fall of Arabic science, demonstrating how the traditional “age of decline” in Arabic science was indeed a “Golden Age” as far as astronomy was concerned. Some of the techniques and mathematical theorems developed during this period were identical to those which were employed by Copernicus in developing his own non-Ptolemaic astronomy. Significantly, this volume will shed much-needed light on the conditions under which such theories were developed in medieval Islam. It clearly demonstrates the distinction that was drawn between astronomical activities and astrological ones, and reveals, contrary to common perceptions about medieval Islam, the accommodation that was obviously reached between religion and astronomy, and the degree to which astronomical planetary theories were supported, and at times even financed, by the religious community itself. This in stark contrast to the systematic attacks leveled by the same religious community against astrology. To students of European intellectual history, the book reveals the technical relationship between the astronomy of the Arabs and that of Copernicus. Saliba’s definitive work will be of particular interest to historians of Arabic science as well as to historians of medieval and Renaissance European science.
