Jaghmīnī's Mulakhkhaṣ : An Islamic Introduction to Ptolemaic Astronomy.

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- I.1 The Arabic Edition and English Translation of Jaghmini's Mulakhkhas -- I.2 The Dating of Jaghmini to the Late Twelfth/Early Thirteenth Centuryand Resolving the Question of Multiple Jaghminis -- I.2.1 A Man Who Should Need No Introduction -- I.2.2 Review of the Literature and the Tale of Two Jaghminis -- I.2.3 Evidence Shedding New Light -- I.2.3a Dating the Qanunca -- I.2.3b Dating the Mulakhkhas -- I.2.3c Further Evidence for Dating Jaghmini -- I.2.4 So What's in a Date? -- I.3 An Overview of Summary Accounts of Astronomy Before the Mulakhkhas -- I.3.1 The Meaning of 'Ilm al-hay'a -- I.3.2 Ancient Forebears -- I.3.2a Ptolemy's Predecessors -- I.3.2b Ptolemy -- I.3.2c The Ptolemaic Aftermath: Theoretical Astronomy with-and without-Him -- I.3.3 Islamic Forebears -- I.3.3a The Moderns -- I.3.3b The Post-Moderns -- I.4 Jaghmini's Mulakhkhas: A Beginners Text, but Not for the Untutored -- Editorial Procedures -- II.1 Editorial Procedures -- II.1a Establishing the Text -- II.1b Establishing the Figures -- II.1c Variants and Orthography -- II.1d Parameters -- II.2 Description of the Manuscripts -- II.3 Explanation of Signs and Conventions Used in the Arabic Critical Edition and Apparatus -- Critical Apparatus -- Edition, Translation, and Apparatuses -- [Preface] In the Name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful -- Introduction -- On an Explanation of the Divisions of the Bodies in General Terms -- The First Part -- On an Explanation of the Orbs and What Pertains to Them -- Chapter 1 of Part I On the Configurations of the Orbs -- Chapter 2 of Part I On The Motions of the Orbs -- Chapter 3 of Part I On the Circles -- Chapter 4 of Part I On the Arcs -- Chapter 5 of Part I On What Occurs to the Planets in Their Motions -- [1] Among what occurs to the planets is longitudinal anomaly.

[10] The distances of these points and their centers, one from the other -- [14] Among what occurs to the planets is latitudinal anomaly -- [24] Let us mention here the apogees and the nodes -- [29] What occurs to the vacillating planets regarding retrogradation, direct motion, and stations -- [32] What occurs to [the vacillating planets] in relation to the Sun -- [35] What occurs to the Moon in relation to the Sun: The new Moon [muhaq], waxing, full Moon, waning, its eclipsing of the Sun, and lunar eclipses -- The Second Part -- On an Explanation of the Earth and What Pertains to It in Three Chapters -- Chapter 1 of Part II On the Inhabited Part of the Earth and Its Latitude, Its Longitude, and Its Division into the Climes -- Chapter 2 On the Characteristics of the Equator and Locations Having Latitude -- Chapter Three Miscellaneous Items -- TEXT APPARATUS -- FIGURE APPARATUS -- Commentary to the Edition and Translation -- Preface -- The First Part: On an Explanation of the Orbs and What Pertains to Them -- Chapter 1 of Part I: On the Configurations of the Orbs -- Chapter 2 of Part I: On the Motions of the Orbs -- On the Sources -- Chapter 3 of Part I: On the Circles -- Chapter 4 of Part I: On the Arcs -- Chapter 5 of Part I: On What Occurs to the Planets in Their Motions -- The Second Part: On an Explanation of the Earth and What Pertains to It in Three Chapters -- Chapter 1 of Part II: On the Inhabited Part of the Earth and Its Latitude, Its Longitude, and Its Division into the Climes -- Chapter 2 of Part II: On the Characteristics of the Equator and Locations Having Latitude -- Chapter 3 of Part II: Miscellaneous Items -- Appendices -- Appendix I: Jaghmini's Works -- A. Astronomy -- B. Astrology -- C. Mathematics -- D. Medicine -- E. Other -- F. Misattributions -- Appendix II: Works Derivative from the Mulakhkhas.

A. Commentaries, Supercommentaries, and Glosses (Arabic) -- B. Translations, Commentaries, Supercommentaries, and Glosses (Persian) -- C. Other Translations (Turkish and Hebrew) -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Manuscripts Cited -- EGYPT -- FRANCE -- GERMANY -- IRAN -- THE NETHERLANDS -- SLOVAKIA -- SYRIA -- TURKEY -- UK -- USA -- Parameter Index -- Subject Index -- Plates.

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