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1 online resource (vi, 508 pages) |
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Intro; Contents; Preface to the New Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures; Introduction; Hic Sunt Dracones-Astrolabe Research Revisited; Chapter 1 Astrolabes as Eclipse Computers: Four Early Arabic Texts on Construction and Use of the Ṣafīḥa Kusūfiyya; Chapter 2 The Astrolabe Finger Ring of Bonetus de Latis: Study, Latin text, and English Translation with Commentary; Chapter 3 Some Features of the Old Castilian Alfonsine Translation of ʿAlī Ibn Khalaf's Treatise on the Lámina Universal |
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Chapter 4 From the Celestial Globe to the Astrolabe: Transferring Celestial Motion onto the Plane of the AstrolabeChapter 5 Knowledge in Motion: An Early European Astrolabe and Its Possible Medieval Itinerary; Chapter 6 A Monumental Astrolabe Made for Shāh Jahān and Later Reworked with Sanskrit Legends; Chapter 7 Saphaeae and Hayʼāt: The Debate between Instrumentalism and Realism in Al-Andalus; Chapter 8 Astrolabes on Parchment: The Astrolabes Depicted in Alfonso X's Libro Del Saber De Astrología and Their Relationship to Contemporary Instruments |
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Chapter 9 Fit for a King: Decoding the Great Sloane Astrolabe and Other English Astrolabes with "Quatrefoil" RetesChapter 10 European Astrolabes to ca. 1500: An Ordered List; Chapter 11 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; Chapter 12 Changing the Angle of Vision: Astrolabe Dials on Astronomical Clocks; Chapter 13 Astrolabes for the King: The Astrolabe of Petrus Raimundi of Barcelona |
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Chapter 14 A New Approach to the Star Data of Early Planispheric AstrolabesEpilogue; Reconstruction of the Plate of Eclipses according to the Description by Alī ibn ʿĪsā; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Originally published, in part, as Volume 23, No. 1-5 (2017) of Brill's journal Medieval encounters |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 15, 2019) |
| Subject |
Astrolabes -- History
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Astronomical instruments -- History
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Nautical instruments -- History
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NATURE -- Sky Observation.
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Astrolabes
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Astronomical instruments
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Nautical instruments
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Astrolabis.
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Instruments astronòmics.
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Història de la ciència.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Llibres electrònics.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rodríguez Arribas, Josefina, editor
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Burnett, Charles (Charles S. F.), editor.
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Ackermann, Silke, editor
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Szpiech, Ryan, editor
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| LC no. |
2018044134 |
| ISBN |
9004387862 |
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9789004387867 |
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