The influence of Arabic-Islamic science on European astronomy is
still evident in the number of terms and star names which derive
from the Arabic. These articles examine what the Arabs - and other
peoples of the Islamic world - knew about the fixed stars and the
constellations, and the astrological traditions they associated
with them. Professor Kunitzsch shows how the early folk astronomy
of the Arabs was radically altered, without being swept away, by
the discovery of ancient Greek, also Indian and Persian, sources;
by far the most important of these was the Almagest of Ptolemy.
This knowledge was then transmitted to medieval Europe, to
Byzantium and, especially, to Spain, as the articles go on to
describe, and was a vital factor in stimulating the development of
scientific thought in the West.
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