Studies in the history of the exact sciences in honour of David Pingree /

Other Authors: Pingree, David Edwin,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.
Series:Islamic philosophy, theology, and science, v. 54
Subjects:
Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=133006
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Constellation into Planet / Erica Reiner -- Stars, Cities, and Predictions / Hermann Hunger -- An Early Observation Text for Mars: HSM 1899.2.112 (= HSM 1490) / John P. Britton -- A Babylonian Rising Times Scheme in Non-Tabular Astronomical Texts / Francesca Rochberg -- Babylonian Mathemagics: Two Mathematical Astronomical-Astrological Texts / Lis Brack-Bernsen, John M. Steele -- An 'Almagest' Before Ptolemy's? / Alexander Jones / Ptolemy's Harmonics and the 'Tones of the Universe' in the Canobic Inscription / N.M. Swerdlow Neither Observation nor Astronomical Tables: An Alternative Way of Computing the Planetary Longitudes in the Early Western Middle Ages / David Juste -- Les Tables Faciles de Ptolemee: une edition critique / Anne Tihon -- Arabic and Latin Astrology Compared in the Twelfth Century: Firmicus, Adelard of Bath and 'Doctor Elmirethi' ('Aristoteles Milesius') / Charles Burnett -- On the Dimension of the Astral Bodies in Zoroastrian Literature: Between Tradition and Scientific Astronomy / Antonio Panaino -- Jambudvipa: Apples or Plums? / Dominik Wujastyk -- Setting Up the Water Clock for Telling the Time of Marriage / Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma -- Planet Worship in Ancient India / Michio Yano -- Competing Cosmologies in Early Modern Indian Astronomy / Christopher Z. Minkowski -- Two Benares Manuscripts of Narayana Pandita's Bijaganitavatamsa / Takao Hayashi -- Indian Rules for the Decomposition of Fractions / Takanori Kusuba -- Area of a Bow-Figure in India / R.C. Gupta -- A Survey of Rules for Computing the True Daily Motion of the Planets in India / Setsuro Ikeyama -- The Problem of the Sun's Corner Altitude and Convergence of Fixed-Point Iterations in Medieval Indian Astronomy / Kim Plofker -- Sanskrit Scientific Texts in Indo-Persian Sources, with Special Emphasis on Siddhantas and Karanas / S.M. Razaullah Ansari -- The Fragments of Abu Sahl al-Kuhi's Lost Geometrical Works in the Writings of al-Sijzi / J.L. Berggren, Jan P. Hogendijk; A Hellenistic Astrological Table Deemed Worthy of Being Penned in Gold Ink: the Arabic Tradition of Vettius Valens' Auxiliary Function for Finding the Length of Life / David A. King -- Magic Squares for Daily Life / Jacques Sesiano -- A Prognostication Based on the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in 1166 (561 A.H.) / Bernard R. Goldstein -- Astrology and Prophecy: The Ikhwan al-Safa and the Legend of the Seven Sleepers / Godefroid de Callatay -- Ibn al-Haytham and Eudoxus: The Revival of Homocentric Modeling in Islam / F. Jamil Ragep -- Reform of Ptolematic Astronomy at the Court of Ulugh Beg / George Saliba -- The Zij-i Nasiri by Mahmud ibn Umar: the Earliest Indian Zij and Its Relation to the Ala i Zij / Benno van Dalen -- Current Bibliography of David Pingree -- Index of names of ancient and medieval authors. 
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