Ibn al-Nadlmin his al-fihrist devotes several sections to al-Kindl's scientific works, such as arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy, meteorology, and spherics.5 The list of Al-KindT's meteorological works includes two lost treatises, entitled "His treatise on what was observed of the great atmospheric phenomenon in 222 a.h." (Kitäb risälatih fimä rasada min al-athar al-cazïm fisanat ithnatayn wa cishñn wa mi 'atayn li- 'l-hijra) and "His treatise on a comet that appeared and [al-Kindl] observed it for some days until it faded out" (Kitäb risälatih fi kawkab alladhi zahara wa rasadahu ayyäman hattä idmahalla).6 The title of the first treatise indicates that it concerns al-Kindl's observation of an 'atmospheric' phenomenon that appeared in 222 a.h./a.d. 837 and which we can probably identify as a comet.7 Rada supposes that this would have been al-Kindl's treatise on observations of Halley's Comet which appeared in that year.8 In this article, I will demonstrate that this conjecture is definitely correct. [...]it is quite possible that the second treatise was associated with the same topic.9 Recently, I came across a treatise entitled Nayäzik,'0 during my research into a collection of manuscript images from Princeton University Library."
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Miguel A. Granada;
Patrick J. Boner;
(2022)
Michael Maestlin’s Manuscript Treatise on the Comet of 1618: An Edition and Translation of Manuscript WLB Stuttgart, Cod. Math. 4º 15b, Nr. 8
(/isis/citation/CBB075403969/)
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Telesio, Bernardino;
(2012)
Sobre los cometas y la Vía Láctea/De cometis at lacteo circulo
(/isis/citation/CBB001213063/)
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Granada, Miguel A.;
Mosley, Adam;
Jardine, Nicholas;
(2014)
Christoph Rothmann's Discourse on the Comet of 1585: An Edition and Translation with Accompanying Essays
(/isis/citation/CBB001213946/)
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Gatti, Roberto;
(2008)
L'infinito fisico in Gersonide (Milḥamot ha-Šem, Libro sesto, Parte prima, cap. XI)
(/isis/citation/CBB001020551/)
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Gerrit Bos;
Charles Burnett;
(2000)
Scientific Weather Forecasting in the Middle Ages: The Writings of Al-Kindī: Studies, Editions, and Translations
(/isis/citation/CBB075390459/)
Chapter
Elamrani-Jamal, Abdelali;
(2004)
Fragment d'un traité de minéralogie d'al-Kindī. Présentation, texte et traduction
(/isis/citation/CBB000650861/)
Thesis
Maria Americo;
(2019)
An Analysis of Ninth-Century Reception of Claudius Ptolemy's Astronomy in the Arabic Tradition
(/isis/citation/CBB318402630/)
Chapter
Jean-Patrice Boudet;
(2016)
Les comètes dans le Centiloquium et le De cometis du pseudo-Ptolémée
(/isis/citation/CBB678022467/)
Book
Zanda, Brigitte;
Monica, Rotaru.;
(2001)
Meteorites: Their impact on science and history
(/isis/citation/CBB000100079/)
Article
Recio, Gonzalo Luis;
(2022)
A Spanish Study of the 1572 Nova: Jerónimo Muñoz and his Book on the New Comet
(/isis/citation/CBB071826592/)
Chapter
Pfitzner, Elvira;
(2001)
Christian Friedrich Scheithauer und die Astronomie in Chemnitz am Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts
(/isis/citation/CBB000102394/)
Article
Daniela Luge;
Rob van Gent;
Markus Mugrauer;
Paul Kunitzsch;
Ralph Neuhäuser;
(2016)
Tycho Brahe, Abū Maʿshar, and the comet beyond Venus (ninth century A.D.)
(/isis/citation/CBB931216833/)
Article
Gingerich, Owen;
(1986)
Newton, Halley, and the comet
(/isis/citation/CBB000035881/)
Article
Kragh, Helge;
(2013)
Nordic Cosmogonies: Birkeland, Arrhenius and Fin-de-siècle Cosmical Physics
(/isis/citation/CBB001320788/)
Book
Gary Kronk;
(2017)
Lewis Swift: Celebrated Comet Hunter and the People's Astronomer
(/isis/citation/CBB239649480/)
Chapter
Richard Strom;
(2015)
Some Statistical Aspects of Historical Chinese Astronomy Records
(/isis/citation/CBB856277898/)
Article
Bruno Á. Granada;
(2022)
Bruno e Campanella sulle novità celesti e le leggi di natura
(/isis/citation/CBB852208750/)
Article
Gábor Almási;
(2022)
Astrology in the crossfire: the stormy debate after the comet of 1577
(/isis/citation/CBB786602400/)
Chapter
Basile, Bruno;
(1985)
Eclisse d'autore: Galilei, Guiducci e il Discorso delle comete
(/isis/citation/CBB000030867/)
Article
Kemp, Martin;
(2002)
The Kings' comet: Giotto, Halley and the art of observation
(/isis/citation/CBB000301220/)
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