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Astronomy and Astrology in the Medieval Islamic World (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Astronomy and Astrology in the Medieval Islamic World (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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This collection of studies by Edward Kennedy looks first at
questions of spherical astronomy, celestial mapping and planetary
models, and then deals with astrological calculations. Throughout
the author emphasises the importance of advances in mathematics for
understanding the development of medieval Arabic sciences. This
collection of studies based on previously unexploited manuscript
sources in Arabic and Persian. They were written by authors from
the 9th through the 15th centuries, whose locations reached from
south China in the east through Central Asia, the Middle and Near
East, and North Africa, to Spain in the west. The topics are
predominately astronomical rather than astrological. The former
include eclipse predictions, problems in spherical astronomy,
non-ptolemaic planetary theory, and the achievements of Ulugh Beg
and his observatory. Astrological subjects treated are the method
of calculating the ascendant, and how to determine astrological
houses and lots. An astrological history of the career of Genghis
Khan is also described.
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