Studies in the history of the exact sciences in honour of David Pingree /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2004.
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| Series: | Islamic philosophy, theology, and science,
v. 54 |
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=133006 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.