Astrolabes in Medieval cultures

Astrolabes in Medieval cultures / edited by Josefina Rodriguez-Arribas, Charles Burnett, Silke Ackermann, Ryan Szpiech.

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First published as a special issue of the journal Medieval Encounters (vol. 23, 2017), this volume, edited by Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Charles Burnett, Silke Ackermann, and Ryan Szpiech, brings together fifteen studies on various aspects of the astrolabe in medieval cultures. The astrolabe, devel...

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Rodríguez-Arribas, Josefina
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Rodríguez Arribas, Josefina,
Burnett, Charles
Ackermann, Silke,
Szpiech, Ryan,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Notes:
  • Originally published, in part, as Volume 23, No. 1-5 (2017) of Brill's journal Medieval encounters.
  • Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Preface to the New Edition / Ryan Szpiech
  • Preface to the First Edition
  • Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures / Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas , Charles Burnett and Silke Ackermann
  • Introduction
  • Hic Sunt Dracones—Astrolabe Research Revisited / Silke Ackermann
  • Astrolabes as Eclipse Computers: Four Early Arabic Texts on Construction and Use of the Ṣafīḥa Kusūfiyya / Johannes Thomann
  • The Astrolabe Finger Ring of Bonetus de Latis: Study, Latin text, and English Translation with Commentary / Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas
  • Some Features of the Old Castilian Alfonsine Translation of ʿAlī Ibn Khalaf’s Treatise on the Lámina Universal / Emilia Calvo
  • From the Celestial Globe to the Astrolabe: Transferring Celestial Motion onto the Plane of the Astrolabe / Flora Vafea
  • Knowledge in Motion: An Early European Astrolabe and Its Possible Medieval Itinerary / Petra G. Schmidl
  • A Monumental Astrolabe Made for Shāh Jahān and Later Reworked with Sanskrit Legends / Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma
  • Saphaeae and Hayʾāt: The Debate between Instrumentalism and Realism in Al-Andalus / Miquel Forcada
  • Astrolabes on Parchment: The Astrolabes Depicted in Alfonso X’s Libro Del Saber De Astrología and Their Relationship to Contemporary Instruments / Laura Fernández Fernández
  • Fit for a King: Decoding the Great Sloane Astrolabe and Other English Astrolabes with “Quatrefoil” Retes / John Davis
  • European Astrolabes to circa 1500: An Ordered List / David A. King
  • 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 / Taro Mimura
  • Changing the Angle of Vision: Astrolabe Dials on Astronomical Clocks / Günther Oestmann
  • Astrolabes for the King: The Astrolabe of Petrus Raimundi of Barcelona / Azucena Hernández
  • A New Approach to the Star Data of Early Planispheric Astrolabes / Giorgio Strano
  • Epilogue
  • Reconstruction of the Plate of Eclipses according to the Description by ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā / Flora Vafea
  • Back Matter
  • Index.

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