The Light of the World (eBook)

Astronomy in al-Andalus

Joseph ibn Nahmias (Autor)

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2016
448 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96303-0 (ISBN)

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This book contains an editionwith an extensive introduction, translation and commentaryof The Light of the World, a text on theoretical astronomy by Joseph Ibn Nahmias, composed in Judeo-Arabic around 1400 C.E. in the Iberian Peninsula. As the only text on theoretical astronomy written by a Jew in any variety of Arabic, this work is evidence for a continuing relationship between Jewish and Islamic thought in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. The text's most lasting effect may have been exerted via its passage to Renaissance Italy, where it influenced scholars at the University of Padua in the early sixteenth century. With its crucial role in the development of European astronomy, as well as the physical sciences under Islam and in Jewish culture, The Light of the World is an important episode in Islamic intellectual history, Jewish civilization, and the history of astronomy.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Berkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship
• Reihe/Serie: Berkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
• Schlagworte: ancient astronomy • Astronomers • Astronomy • Early Astronomy • European Astronomy • history of astronomy • history of european astronomy • Islamic culture • Islamic history • islamic intellectual history • islamic thought in the 14th century • Jewish civilization • Jewish Culture • Jewish History • Jewish Studies • jewish thought in the 14th century • judeo arabic astronomy • Physical Sciences • planetary exploration • scientists • theoretical astronomy
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96303-2 / 0520963032
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96303-0 / 9780520963030