TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rodríguez-Arribas,Josefina
AU  - Burnett,Charles
AU  - Ackermann,Silke
AU  - Szpiech,Ryan
TI  - Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures
SN  - 9789004387867
AV  - QB85 .A887 2019 
U1  - 522.20902 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Astrolabes-History
KW  - Astronomical instruments-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Preface to the New Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Introduction -- 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 -- chapter 4 From the Celestial Globe to the Astrolabe: Transferring Celestial Motion onto the Plane of the Astrolabe -- chapter 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 Hayʾāt: 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 -- chapter 9 Fit for a King: Decoding the Great Sloane Astrolabe and Other English Astrolabes with "Quatrefoil" Retes -- chapter 10 European Astrolabes to ca. 1500: An Ordered List -- chapter 11 Too Many Arabic Treatises on the Operation ofthe 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 -- chapter 14 A New Approach to the Star Data of Early Planispheric Astrolabes -- Epilogue -- Index
N2  - Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures brings together fifteen studies on the astrolabe in the Middle Ages. 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
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