From deferent to equant: A volume of studies in the history of science in the ancient and medieval Near East in honor of E.S. Kennedy (1987)
King, David A. (Editor)
Saliba, George A. (Editor)
New York Academy of Sciences
Physical Details: xxix + 569 pp.; notes.; bibl.
Description Contains a brief biogaphy of Kennedy and a list of his publications, and the following papers: Aaboe, Asger: A late-Babylonian procedure text for Mars, and some remarks on retrograde arcs. Berggren, J.L.: Spherical trigonometry in Kūshyār ibn Labbān's Jāmi' zīj. Debarnot, Marie-Thérèse: The Zīj of Ḥabash al-Ḥāsib: A survey of MS Istanbul Yeni Cami 784/2. Dold-Samplonius, Yvonne: Developments in the solution to the equation cx2 + bx=a from al-Khwārizmī to Fibonacci. Gingerich, Owen: Zoomorphic astrolabs and the introduction of Arabic star names into Europe. Goldstein, Bernard R.: Descriptions of astronomical instruments in Hebrew. Hamadanizadeh, Javad: A survey of medieval Islamic interpolation schemes. AHMAD YOUSIF al-HASAN: Chemical technology in Arabic military treatises. Heinen, Anton M.: An unknown treatise by Sanad ibn 'Alī on the relative magnitudes of the sun, earth, and moon. Hogendijk, Jan P.: Abu'l-Jūd's answer to a question of al-Bīrūnī concerning the regular heptagon. King, David A.: Some early Islamic tables for determing lunar cresent visibility. Kunitzsch, Paul: Al-Khwarizmī as a source for the Sententie astrolabii. Lorch, Richard: Al-Ṣaghānī's treatise on projecting the sphere. Matvievskaya, Galina: The theory of quadratic irrationals in medieval Oriental mathematics. Neugebauer, Otto: The chronological system of Abu Shaker (A.H. 654). Pedersen, Olaf: A few notes on sundials. Pingree, David: Indian and Islamic astronomy at Jayasiṃha's court. Ragep, F. Jamil: The two versions of the Ṭūsī Couple. Regier, Mary H.: Kennedy's geographical tables of medieval Islam: An exploratory statistical analysis. Richter-Bernburg, Lutz: Ṣā'id, the Toledan Tables, and Andalusī science. Rozhanskaya, Mariam, B.A. Rosenfeld: On al-Bīrūnī's Densimetry. Rosińska, Grazyna: Tables of decimal trigonometric functions from ca. 1450 to ca. 1550. Rozhanskaya, Mariam: On a mathematical problem in al-Khāzinī's Book of the balance of wisdom. Saidan, Ahmed: The Takmila fi'l-Ḥisāb of al-Baghdādi. Saliba, George: The height of the atmosphere according to Mu'ayyad al-Dīn al-'Urḍī, Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, and Ibn Mu'ādh. Samsó, Julio: Al-Zarqāl, Alfonso X and Peter of Aragon on the solar equation. Sayili, Aydin: Ibn Sīnā and Buridan on the motion of the projectile. Sesiano, Jacques: A treatise by al-Qabīṣī (Alchabitius) on arithmetical series. Swerdlow, Noel M.: Jābir ibn Aflaḥ's interesting method for finding the eccentricities and direction of the apsidal line of a superior planet. Toomer, G.J.: The solar theory of Az-Zarqāl: An epilogue. Vernet, Juan: The Dominican, the Benedictine, and the moon. Waerden, B.L. van der: The heliocentric system in Greek, Persian and Hindu astronomy. Yabuuti, K.: The influence of Islamic astronomy in China. Yff, Peter: On the beta-line and beta-circles of a triangle.
Review North, J. (1988) Review of "From deferent to equant: A volume of studies in the history of science in the ancient and medieval Near East in honor of E.S. Kennedy". Journal for the History of Astronomy (pp. 55-56).
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