Book ID: CBB000650670

On the Astrolabe (2005)

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Al-Farghani (Author)
Lorch, Richard P. (Editor)


Franz Steiner Verlag


Publication Date: 2005
Physical Details: 447 pp.; ill.; bibl.
Language: English

Description Arabic text edited with translation and commentary by Richard Lorch.


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Review Samsó, Julio (2007) Review of "On the Astrolabe". Journal for the History of Astronomy (p. 507). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
King, David A.
Calvo, Emilia
Charette, François
Brieux, Alain
Charette, F.
Dekker, Elly
Journals
Suhayl: Journal for the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islamic Civilisation
Arabic Sciences and Philosophy
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
Indian Journal of History of Science
Mariner's Mirror
Medieval Encounters
Publishers
Lehigh University
Academia Bruylant
Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum
Brepols Publishers
Brill
Steiner
Concepts
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Astronomy
Astrolabes
Mathematics
Translations
People
al-Farghani, Abu al-Abbas
Ptolemy
al-Khwārizmī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsā
Habash al-Hasib, Ahmad Ibn 'Abd Allah Al-Marwazi
Ibn Bāṣo, Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad
Kūshyār ibn Labbān, al-Jīlī
Time Periods
Medieval
9th century
Ancient
11th century
15th century
16th century
Places
Ottoman Empire
Persia (Iran)
Egypt
Europe
Greece
Spain
Institutions
Adler Planetarium, Chicago
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