9004132023 - Studies in the History of the Exact Sciences in Honour of David Pingree: 54 (Islamic Philosophy, Theology, & Science) (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Gut. 1. Auflage. VIII + 890 pages, first edition, orig. cloth gilt (see photo), label on spine, library stamp verso title, otherwise in very good condition. - - Contents: Preface. - - Mesopotamia: Erica Reiner: Constellation into Planet. - Hermann Hunger: Stars, Cities and Predictions. - John L. Britton: An Early Observation Text for Mars: HSM 1899.2.112 (= HSM 1490). - Francesca Rochberg: A Babylonian Rising Times Scheme in Non-Tabular Astronomical Texts. - Lis Brack-Bernsen & John M. Steele: Babylonian Mathemagics: Two Astronomical-Astrological Texts. - - Classical an Medieval Europe: Alexander Jones: An 'Almagest' Before Ptolemy's? - N.M. Swerdlow: Ptolemy's Harmonics and the 'Tones of the Universe" in the Canobic Inscription. - David Juste: Neither Observation nor Astronomical Tables: An Alternative Way of Computing the Planetary Longitudes in the Early Western Middle Ages. - Anne Tihon: Les Tables Faciles de Ptolémée: une édition critique. - Charles Burnett: Arabic and Latin Astrology Compared in the Twelth Century: Firmicus, Adelard of Bath and 'Doctor Elmirethi" ('Aristoteles Milesius'). - - India and Iran: Antonio Panaino: On the Dimensions of the Astral Bodies in Zoroastrian Literature: Between Tradition and Scientific Astronomy. - Dominik Wujastyk: Jambudvipa: Apples or Plums? - Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma: Setting Up the Water Clock for Telling the Time of Marriage. - Michio Yano: Planet Worship in Ancient India. - Christopher Z. Minkowski: Competing Cosmologies in Early Modern Indian Astronomy. - Takao Hayashi: Two Benares Manuscripts of Narayana Pandita's Bijaganitavatamsa. - Takanori Kusuba: Indian Rules for the Decomposition of Fractions. - R.C. Gupta: Area of a Bow-Figure in India. - Setsuro Ikeyama: A Survey of Rules for Computing the True Daily Motion of the Planets in India. - Kim Plofker: The Problem of the Sun's Corner Altitude and Convergence of Fixed-Point Iterations in Medieval Indian Astronomy. - S.M. Razaullah Ansari: Sanskrit Scientific Texts in Indo-Persian Sources, with Special Emphasis on Siddhantas and Karanas. - - Islam: J.L. Berggren & Jan P. Hogendijk: The Fragments of Abu Sahl al-Kuhi's Lost Geometrical Works in the Writings of al-Sijzi. - David A. King: A Hellenistic Astrological Table Deemed Worthy of Being Penned in Gold Ink: the Arabic Tradition of Vettius Valens' Auxiliary Function for Finding the Lenght of Life. - Jacques Sesiano: Magic Squares for Daily Life. - Bernard R. Goldstein: A Prognostication Based on the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in 1166 (561 A.H.). - Godefroid de Callatay: Astrology and Prophecy: The Ikhwan al-Safa and the Legend of the Seven Sleepers. - F. Jamil Ragep: Ibn al-Haytham and Exodus: The Revival of Homocentric Modeling in Islam. - George Saliba: Reform of Ptolemaic Astronomy at the Court of Ulugh Beg. - Benno van Dalen: The Zij-i Nasiri by Mahmud ibn 'Umar: the Earliest Indian Zij and Its Relation to the 'Ala'i Zij. - - Current Bibliography of David Pingree. - Index of names of ancient and medieval authors.