Planetary Equatorium of Jamshid Ghiyath al-Din al-Kashi.
Instruments for solving astronomical problems are part of a continuous tradition reaching far back through the Middle Ages into the Hellenistic world. Dr. Kennedy expands the history of analog computers by providing an account of an important development in Central Asia where, in the Samarqand obser...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017] ©1960 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Princeton Studies on the Near East ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (284 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- TEXT and TRANSLATION
- TEXT OF THE MANUSCRIPT
- TREATISE I. ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE INSTRUMENT CALLED THE PLATE OF HEAVENS
- TREATISE II. ON THE OPERATION OF THE PLATE OF HEAVENS
- COMMENTARY
- PERSIAN GLOSSARY
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX