Arabic-L:GEN:Arab Astronomy response

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Date: 07 Jul 2001
From: Petra Duenges <duenges at CoLi.Uni-SB.DE>
Subject: Arab Astronomy response

hallo,

C.Farrell asked:

    Would anyone know of a short explanation of the (Arabic-writing)
    medieval astronomers' contribution to astronomy.  We need something
    suitable for scientific/engineering students.  Descriptions of
    instruments and measurements are needed for credibility with these
    people.

have a look at the works of professor David A. King. he is concerned
with arabic astronomy in the middle ages. being a mathematician by
training he is sure to know what an engineer will find interessting.

the follwing is a list of his books i found at
http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/technikhist/uni/unif.htm


Astronomy in the Service of Islam. Aldershot/U.K. 1993.
        Islamic Mathematical Astronomy. 2. Auflage, Aldershot/U.K.1993.
        1992 - A good year for medieval astronomical instruments.
Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society 36 (1993), 17-18.
        L'astronomie en Syrie à l'époque islamique. - Instruments
astronomiques syriens. In: Sophie Cluzan/Eric Del-pont/Jeanne
Mouliérac (Hrsgg.): Syrie, Mémoire et Civilisation. Paris 1993, S.
386-395 und 480/432-443 und 485-87.
        Rewriting history through instruments: The secrets of a
medieval astrolabe from Picardy. In: Robert G. Ander-son/James A.
Bennett/Will F. Ryan (Hrsgg.): Making instruments count - Essays on
historical scientific in-struments presented to Gerard L'Estrange
Turner. Aldershot/U.K.
        1993, S. 42-62.
        Some medieval astronomical instruments and their secrets. In:
Renato Mazzolini (Hrsg.): Non-verbal sources in science before 1900.
Florenz 1993, S. 29-52.
         Über historische Modelle des Universums in drei und in zwei
Dimensionen - die Armillarsphäre und das Astrolab und Beschreibungen
eines frühen gedruckten Werkes und eines Manuskripts sowie
verschiedener Instrumente. In: Uwe Müller (Hrsg.): 450 Jahre
Copernicus 'De revolutionibus'
        - Astronomische und mathematische Bücher aus Schweinfurter
Bibliotheken. Schweinfurt 1993, S. 123-137/167-169 (Nr. 20)/351-353
(Nr. 169)/361-381 (Nr. 177-181).
        Vergessene Schätze des Mittelalters - In Frankfurt erscheint
der erste Katalog mittelalterlicher astronomischer Instrumente.
Forschung Frankfurt 11 (1993), Nr. 4, 1-13.
        Mathematics applied to aspects of religious ritual in Islam.
In: Ivor Grattan-Guinness (Hrsg.): Companion Encyclopaedia of the
History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences. Bd 1, London
1994, S. 80-84.
        (Zusammen mit Gerard L'E. Turner): The astrolabe dedicated to
cardinal Bessarion by Regiomontanus in 1462. In: Gianfranco
Fiaccadori (Hrsg.): Bessarione e l'umanesimon. Neapel 1994, S.
340-367.
        (Zusammen mit Gerard L'E. Turner): The astrolabe presented by
Regiomontanus to cardinal Bessarion in 1462. Nuncius: Annali di
Storia della Scienza 9 (1994), H. 1, 165-206.
        Astronomie im Dienste des Islam. - Ein vergessenes
Zahlensystem des mittelalterlichen Mönchtums. In: Anton von
Gotstedter (Hrsg.): Ad radices. Stuttgart 1994, S. 99-124/405-420.
        Le plus vieil astrolabe d'Europe. Qantara - Cultures en
mouvement 11 (April-Juni 1994), 51.
        Folk astronomy in the service of religion: The case of Islam.
In: Clive L. N. Ruggles/Nicholas J. Saunders (Hrsgg.): Astronomies
and cultures. Niwot/Colorado 1994, S. 124-138.
        Astronomical instruments between East and West. In: Harry
Kühnel (Hrsg.): Kommunikation zwischen Orient und Okzident.
Sitzungsberichte der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften,
Phil.-Hist. Klasse Bd 619 (1994), 143-198.
        Illustrations in islamic scientific manuscripts. In: George N.
Atiyeh (Hrsg.): The book in the Islamic world: The written word and
communication in the Middle East. Albany/N.Y. 1994, S. 149-177.
        ,,Rub' [quadrant]. - Ru'yat al-hilal [lunar crescent
visibility]. - Shakkaziyya [universal stereographic projecti-ons]".
In: The Encyclopaedia of Islam. Neue Ausgabe Bd VIII. Leiden 1994, S.
574-575/649-650/Bd IX. Lei-den 1996, S. 251-253.
        Applications of folk astronomy and mathematical astronomy to
aspects of muslim ritual. The Arabist 13/14 (1995), 251-274.
        Himmel über Tanger. In: Hans Joachim Tischleder (Hrsg.):
Tanger - Frankfurt - Zum Beispiel. Frankfurt am Main 1995, S. 168-177.
        Making instruments talk - Some medieval astronomical
instruments and their secrets. Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument
Society (März 1995), Nr. 44, 5-12.
        The orientation of medieval islamic religious architecture and
cities. Journal for the History of Astronomy 26 (1995), 253-274.
        Donald Routledge Hill (1922-1994). Arabic Science and
Philosophy 5 (1995), 297-302.
        Aspekte angewandter Wissenschaften in Moscheen und Klöstern.
Teil 1-2. Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 18 (1995), 85-95 und
137-149.
        A forgotten cistercian system of numerical notation. Cîteaux
- Commentarii Cistercienses 46 (1995), H. 3-4, 183-217.
        Early islamic astronomical instruments in Kuwaiti collections.
In: Arlene Fullerton/Géza Fehérvári (Hrsgg.): Ku-wait: Art and
architecture. A collection of essays. Kuwait 1995, S. 76-96.
        La scienza al servizio della religione: il caso dell'Islam.
In: Clelia Sarnelli Cerqua/Ornella Marra/Pier Giovanni Pelfer
(Hrsgg.): La civiltà islamica e le scienze. Florence 1995, S.
129-150.
        Astronomy and Islamic Society: Qibla, Gnomonics and
Timekeeping. In: Rushdi Rashed (Hrsg.): Encyclopaedia of the History
of Arabic Science. Bd 1, London 1996, S. 128-184.
        On the role of the muezzin and the `Muwaqqit' in medieval
islamic society. In: F. Jamil Ragep/Sally P. Ra-gep/Steven J. Livesey
(Hrsgg.): Tradition, transmission, transformation. Leiden 1996, S.
285-346.
        Islamic astronomy. In: Christopher Walker (Hrsg.): Astronomy
before the telescope. London 1996, S. 143-174.
        ,,The neglected astrolabe". In: Menso Folkerts (Hrsg.):
Mathematische Probleme im Mittelalter - Der lateinische und arabische
Sprachbereich. Wiesbaden 1996, S. 45-55.
        (Zusammen mit Kurt Maier): The medieval Catalan astrolabe of
the society of antiquaries, London. In: Josep Casulleras/Julio Samsó
(Hrsgg.): From Baghdad to Barcelona. Studies in the islamic exact
sciences in honour of Juan Vernet. Anuari de Filologia 30 (1996), H.
2, 673-718.


about ten years ago prof. king was at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität
Frankfurt in Germany, where he was the head of a department specialized
on arabic science in the middle ages. whether he is still there i do not know.


all the best

     petra duenges

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