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Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures

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508 Seiten
2019
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Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures brings together fifteen studies on the astrolabe in the Middle Ages. By considering sources and instruments from Muslim, Christian, and Jewish contexts, this volume provides state-of-the-art research on the history and use of the astrolabe.
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, developed in antiquity and elaborated throughout the Middle Ages, was used for calculation, teaching, and observation, and also served astrological and medical purposes. It was the most popular and prestigious of the mathematical instruments, and was found equally among practitioners of various sciences and arts as among princes in royal courts. By considering sources and instruments from Muslim, Christian, and Jewish contexts, this volume provides state-of-the-art research on the history and use of the astrolabe throughout the Middle Ages.



Contributors are Silke Ackermann, Emilia Calvo, John Davis, Laura Fernández Fernández, Miquel Forcada, Azucena Hernández, David A. King, Taro Mimura, Günther Oestmann, Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma, Petra G. Schmidl, Giorgio Strano, Flora Vafea, and Johannes Thomann.

Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Ph.D. (2004, Universidad Complutense, Madrid) is a Researcher at the Institut für Judische Studien at the University of Münster. Charles Burnett, Ph.D. (1976, University of Cambridge), is Professor of the History of Arabic/Islamic Influences in Europe at the Warburg Institute, University of London and a Fellow of the British Academy. Silke Ackermann, Ph.D. (1996, Goethe University, Frankfurt), is Director of the Museum of the History of Science at the University of Oxford. Ryan Szpiech, Ph.D. (2006, Yale University) is Associate Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Michigan.

Preface to the New Edition

 Ryan Szpiech



Preface

Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures

 Josefina Rodriguez-Arribas, Charles Burnett, and Silke Ackermann



Introduction

Hic Sunt Dragones—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 Rodriguez Arribas



Some Features of the Old Castilian Alfonsine Translation of ‘Alī Ibn Khalaf’s Treatise on the Lamina Universal

 Emilia Calvo



From the Celestial Globe to the Astrolabe: Transferring the 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 Hay’āt: The Debate Between Instrumentalism and Realism in al-Andalus

 Miguel Forcada



Astrolabes on Parchment: The Astrolabes Depicted in Alfonso X’s Libro Del Saber De Astrologia 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 ca. 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



Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Leiden
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 787 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Mittelalter
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie des Mittelalters
ISBN-10 90-04-38380-8 / 9004383808
ISBN-13 978-90-04-38380-7 / 9789004383807
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