Title:
Stars and numbers : astronomy and mathematics in the medieval Arab and western worlds
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Variorum collected studies series
Publication Information:
Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2004
Physical Description:
1 v. (various pagings) ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780860789680
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Summary
Summary
The studies brought together in this second collection of articles by Paul Kunitzsch continue the lines of research evident in his previous volume (The Arabs and the Stars). The Arabic materials discussed stem mostly from the early period of the development of Arabic-Islamic astronomy up to about 1000AD, while the Latin materials belong to the first stage of Western contact with Arabic science at the end of the 10th century, and to the peak of Arabic-Latin translation activity in 12th century Spain. The first set of articles focuses upon Ptolemy in the Arabic-Latin tradition, followed by further ones on Arabic astronomy and its reception in the West; the final group looks at details of the transmission of Euclid's Elements.
Author Notes
Paul Kunitzsch is Emeritus Professor of Arabic Studies in the Institute of Semitic Studies, the University of Munich, Germany.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xi |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiv |
| Ptolemy in the Arabic-Latin Tradition | |
| I Gerard's Translations of Astronomical Texts, Especially the Almagest: Gerardo da Cremona, ed. P. Pizzamiglio. Cremona, 1992 (Annali della Biblioteca Statale e Libreria Civica di Cremona, XLI, 1990) | p. 71 |
| II Gerhard von Cremona als Ubersetzer des Almagest: Festgabe fur Hans-Rudolf Singer, Zum 65. Geburtstag am 6. April 1990, ed. M. Forstner. Frankfurt am Main - Bern - New York - Paris: Peter Lang Verlag, 1991, Teil 1 | p. 347 |
| III Uber einige Spuren der syrischen Almagestubersetzung [characters not reproducible]. Naturwissenschaftsgeschichtliche: Studien, Festschrift fur Willy Hartner, ed. Y. Maeyama and W. G. Saltzer. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1977 | p. 203 |
| IV Die astronomische Terminologie im Almagest: La formation du vocabulaire scientifique et intellectuel dans le monde arabe, ed. D. Jacquart. Turnhout: Brepols, 1994 (CIVICIMA, Etudes sur le vocabulaire intellectuel du moyen age, VII) | p. 55 |
| V A Hitherto Unknown Arabic Manuscript of the Almagest: Zeitschrift fur Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 14. Frankfurt am Main, 2001 | p. 31 |
| VI The Second Arabic Manuscript of Ptolemy's Planisphaerium: Zeitschrift fur Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 9. Frankfurt am Main, 1994 | p. 83 |
| VII The Role of al-Andalus in the Transmission of Ptolemy's Planisphaerium and Almagest: Zeitschrift fur Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 10. Frankfurt am Main, 1995/96 | p. 147 |
| VIII Fragments of Ptolemy's Planisphaerium in an Early Latin Translation: Centaurus 36. Copenhagen, 1993 | p. 97 |
| IX Das Arabische als Vermittler und Anreger europaischer Wissenschaftssprache: Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 17. Weinheim, 1994 | p. 145 |
| X Erfahrungen und Beobachtungen bei der Arbeit mit Texten der arabisch-lateinischen Ubersetzungsliteratur (Mathematik/Astronomie): Mathematische Probleme im Mittelalter. Der lateinische und arabische Sprachbereich, ed. M. Folkerts. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1996 | p. 185 |
| Arabic Astronomy | |
| XI The Chapter on the Fixed Stars in Zaradusht's Kitab al-mawalid: Zeitschrift fur Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 8. Frankfurt am Main, 1993 | p. 241 |
| XII The Astronomer al-Sufi as a Source for Ulug Beg's Star Catalogue (1437): La science dans le monde iranien a l'epoque islamique, ed. Z. Vesel, H. Beikbaghban et B. Thierry de Crussol des Epesse. Teheran: Institut Francais de Recherche en Iran, 1998 | p. 41 |
| XIII Al-Sufi and the Astrolabe Stars: Zeitschrift fur Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 6. Frankfurt am Main, 1990 | p. 151 |
| XIV An Arabic Celestial Globe from the Schmidt Collection, Vienna: Der Globusfreund 40/41. Vienna, 1992 | p. 83 |
| Arabic Astronomy in the West | |
| XV Les relations scientifiques entre l'occident et le monde arabe a l'epoque de Gerbert: Gerbert l'Europeen. Actes du colloque d'Aurillac, 4-7 juin 1996. Aurillac, 1997 (Societe des lettres, sciences et arts La Haute-Auvergne, Memoires, 3) | p. 193 |
| XVI Traces of a Tenth-Century Spanish-Arabic Astrolabe: Zeitschrift fur Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 12. Frankfurt am Main, 1998 | p. 113 |
| XVII La table des climats dans le corpus des plus anciens textes latins sur l'astrolabe: Science antique, Science medievale (Autour d'Avranches 235). Actes du Colloque International (Mont-Saint-Michel, 4-7 septembre 1998), ed. L. Callebat et O. Desbordes. Hildesheim - Zurich - New York: Olms-Weidmann, 2000 | p. 391 |
| XVIII The Stars on the Rete of the so-called "Carolingian Astrolabe" (with Elly Dekker): From Baghdad to Barcelona. Studies in the Islamic Exact Sciences in Honour of Prof. Juan Vernet, Barcelona, 1996 (Anuari de Filologia, Universitat de Barcelona, XIX, 1996, B-2), vol. II | p. 655 |
| XIX Three Dubious Stars in the Oldest European Table of Astrolabe Stars: Zeitschrift fur Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 13. Frankfurt am Main, 1999-2000 | p. 57 |
| XX The Chapter on the Stars in an Early European Treatise on the Use of the Astrolabe (ca. AD 1000) Suhayl 1.: Barcelona, 2000 | p. 243 |
| XXI A Note on Ascelinus' Table of Astrolabe Stars Annals of Science 57.: London, 2000 | p. 181 |
| XXII On Six Kinds of Astrolabe: a Hitherto Unknown Latin Treatise: Centaurus 36. Copenhagen, 1993 | p. 200 |
| XXIII Zur Problematik der Astrolabsterne: eine weitere unbrauchbare Sterntafel: Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences 43. Rome, 1993 | p. 197 |
| XXIV Coronelli's Great Celestial Globe Made for Louis XIV: the Nomenclature: Zeitschrift fur Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 14. Frankfurt am Main, 2001 | p. 39 |
| XXV Ratselhafte Sternnamen: Der Himmel hat viele Gesichter. Winfried Petri zum 80. Geburtstag, ed. W. Kokott. Munchen: Institut fur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, 1994 (Algorismus, Heft 15) | p. 19 |
| Mathematics and Numbers | |
| XXVI Findings in Some Texts of Euclid's Elements (Mediaeval Transmission, Arabo-Latin): Mathemata. Festschrift fur Helmuth Gericke, ed. M. Folkerts and U. Lindgren. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1985 (Boethius, Band XII) | p. 115 |
| XXVII "The Peacock's Tail": On the names of some theorems of Euclid's Elements: Vestigia Mathematica. Studies in medieval and early modern mathematics in honour of H. L. L. Busard. Amsterdam - Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1993 | p. 205 |
| XXVIII Letters in Geometrical Diagrams, Greek - Arabic - Latin: Zeitschrift fur Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 7. Frankfurt am Main, 1991/92 | p. 1 |
| XXIX The Transmission of Hindu-Arabic Numerals Reconsidered: The Enterprise of Science in Islam. New Perspectives, ed. J. P. Hogendijk and A. I. Sabra. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London: The MIT Press, 2003 | p. 3 |
| Index of Names | p. 1 |
| Index of Manuscripts | p. 7 |
