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Islamic astronomy and geography

Islamic astronomy and geography
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ISBN 1409442012 (hbk.)
9781409442011 (hbk.)
Author King, David A.
Title Islamic astronomy and geography / [by] David A. King
Publisher Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Variorum, 2012
Physical desc. 1 v. (various pagings) ; ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Series Collected studies 1009
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents General. Islamic astronomy -- From inscriptions to context: some Islamic astronomical instruments and their secrets -- Some illustrations in Islamic scientific manuscripts and their secrets -- Regional studies. Aspects of Fatimid astronomy: from hard-core mathematical astronomy to architectural orientations in Cairo -- Mamluk astronomy and the institution of the muwaqqit -- On the history of astronomy in the medieval Maghrib -- Mathematical astrology. A Hellenistic astrological table deemed worthy of being penned in gold ink: the Arabic tradition of Vettius Valens' auxiliary function for funding the length of life -- Sacred geography and the sacred direction. The sacred geography of Islam -- Al-Bazdawī on the qibla in early Islamic Transoxania -- Mathematical geography. Too many cooks...: a new account of the earliest Muslim geodetic measurements -- A world-map in the tradition of al-Bīrūnī (ca. 1040) and al-Khāzinī (ca. 1120) presented by Sirāj al-Dīn al-Sajāwandī (1210) -- Mathematical geography in 15th-century Egypt: an episode in the decline of Islamic science.
Subject Islamic astronomy -- History
Astronomy -- Mathematics -- History
Astronomy, Medieval -- Islamic Empire -- History
Astronomical geography -- History
Science -- Islamic Empire -- History
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