Astronomy until c.430 AH
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Astronomy until c.430 AH
(Handbuch der Orientalistik = Handbook of Oriental studies, section 1 . The Near and Middle East ; v. 167 . The Arabic writing tradition,
Brill, c2024
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  Hiroshima
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  Fukuoka
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  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
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  Okinawa
  Korea
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [248]-429) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Professor Dr Fuat Sezgin meticulously documented the scientific writings and advances achieved by Muslim scholars. His celebrated Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), the largest bio-bibliography for the Arabic literary tradition in general, and the history of science and technology in the Islamic world in particular, is still of utmost importance for the field.
Table of Contents
Preface
Transliteration and Abbreviations
1 Introduction
A. The Current State of Research
B. Beginnings of Arabic Astronomy
C. Reception of Scientific Astronomy
D. Assimilation of Scientific Astronomy
E. Onset of the Creative Period
F. Novel Planetary Models
G. Struggle against Ptolemaic Cosmology
H. Aftereffects
I. Sources for Our Knowledge of Arabic Astronomy
2 Sources
A. Greek Sources
B. Syriac and Persian Sources
C. Indian Sources
3 Arab Astronomers
Addenda to Volume VI
Bibliography, Libraries and Collections of Arabic Manuscripts
Index of Authors
Index of Book Titles
Index of Modern Authors, Publishers, Editors
Index of Shelf Numbers of Anonymous Manuscripts
by "Nielsen BookData"