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Edward
S. Kennedy.
Astronomy
and Astrology in the Medieval Islamic World.
Aldershot: Ashgate,
1998.
Variorum Collected
Studies series, CS600.
ISBN 086078682X.
Hardback, stitch bound; issued without dustjacket.
153x230x23mm.
xii,352pp inc. several monochrome text figures and illustrations
(articles
retain pagination from their original publications).
English.
Very good
(unused) condition.
This item £45.00
Publisher's
price £67.50/$124.95
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Contains:
Al-Hasib on the Melon astrolabe
(1st
publication);
Sindhind days & planetary latitudes (1990);
Al-Sufi
on the celestial globe (1990);
Abu' l-Wafa' calculates the
distance
Baghdad-Mecca (1984);
Two mappings proposed by Biruni
(1990);
The
Tusi Couple (1991);
Spherical astronomy in Kashi's Khaqani Zij
(1990);
Two medieval approaches to the equation of time (1988);
The meridian from one solar altitude (1990);
Ulugh
beg as a scientist
(1st publication);
Heritage of Ulugh Beg (1st publication);
Planetary
theory - late Islamic & renaissance (1982-3);
Two tables
from
an Arabic astronomical handbook for the Mongol viceroy of Tibet
(1988);
Eclipse predictions in Arabic astronomical tables
(1990);
Al-Biruni's
treatise on astrological lots (1990);
Ibn Mu'adh on the
astrological
houses (1990);
An astrological history based on the career of
Genghis
Khan (1991);
Determination of the ascendant (1990);
Astrological
houses as defined by medieval Islamic astrologers (1996).
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