Astrolabes in Medieval cultures / edited by Josefina Rodriguez-Arribas, Charles Burnett, Silke Ackermann, Ryan Szpiech

• Autore: Rodríguez-Arribas Josefina
• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2019]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 522/.20902
• Soggetto topico: Astrolabes - History; Astronomical instruments - History; Nautical instruments - History; Astrolabis; Instruments astronòmics; Història de la ciència
• Soggetto genere / forma: Llibres electrònics
• Persona (resp. second.): Rodríguez ArribasJosefina; BurnettCharles (Charles S. F.); AckermannSilke; SzpiechRyan
• Note generali: Originally published, in part, as Volume 23, No. 1-5 (2017) of Brill's journal Medieval encounters.; Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Preface to the New Edition / Ryan Szpiech -- Preface to the First Edition -- Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures / Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas , Charles Burnett and Silke Ackermann -- Introduction -- Hic Sunt Dracones—Astrolabe Research Revisited / Silke Ackermann -- Astrolabes as Eclipse Computers: Four Early Arabic Texts on Construction and Use of the Ṣafīḥa Kusūfiyya / Johannes Thomann -- The Astrolabe Finger Ring of Bonetus de Latis: Study, Latin text, and English Translation with Commentary / Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas -- Some Features of the Old Castilian Alfonsine Translation of ʿAlī Ibn Khalaf’s Treatise on the Lámina Universal / Emilia Calvo -- From the Celestial Globe to the Astrolabe: Transferring Celestial Motion onto the Plane of the Astrolabe / Flora Vafea -- Knowledge in Motion: An Early European Astrolabe and Its Possible Medieval Itinerary / Petra G. Schmidl -- A Monumental Astrolabe Made for Shāh Jahān and Later Reworked with Sanskrit Legends / Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma -- Saphaeae and Hayʾāt: The Debate between Instrumentalism and Realism in Al-Andalus / Miquel Forcada -- Astrolabes on Parchment: The Astrolabes Depicted in Alfonso X’s Libro Del Saber De Astrología and Their Relationship to Contemporary Instruments / Laura Fernández Fernández -- Fit for a King: Decoding the Great Sloane Astrolabe and Other English Astrolabes with “Quatrefoil” Retes / John Davis -- European Astrolabes to circa 1500: An Ordered List / David A. King -- Too Many Arabic Treatises on the Operation of the Astrolabe in the Medieval Islamic World: Athīr Al-Dīn Al-Abharī’s Treatise on Knowing the Astrolabe and His Editorial Method / Taro Mimura -- Changing the Angle of Vision: Astrolabe Dials on Astronomical Clocks / Günther Oestmann -- Astrolabes for the King: The Astrolabe of Petrus Raimundi of Barcelona / Azucena Hernández -- A New Approach to the Star Data of Early Planispheric Astrolabes / Giorgio Strano -- Epilogue -- Reconstruction of the Plate of Eclipses according to the Description by ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā / Flora Vafea -- Back Matter -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: First published as a special issue of the journal Medieval Encounters (vol. 23, 2017), this volume, edited by Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Charles Burnett, Silke Ackermann, and Ryan Szpiech, brings together fifteen studies on various aspects of the astrolabe in medieval cultures. The astrolabe, developed in antiquity and elaborated throughout the Middle Ages, was used for calculation, teaching, and observation, and also served astrological and medical purposes. It was the most popular and prestigious of the mathematical instruments, and was found equally among practitioners of various sciences and arts as among princes in royal courts. By considering sources and instruments from Muslim, Christian, and Jewish contexts, this volume provides state-of-the-art research on the history and use of the astrolabe throughout the Middle Ages. Contributors are Silke Ackermann, Emilia Calvo, John Davis, Laura Fernández Fernández, Miquel Forcada, Azucena Hernández, David A. King, Taro Mimura, Günther Oestmann, Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma, Petra G. Schmidl, Giorgio Strano, Flora Vafea, and Johannes Thomann.
• Titolo autorizzato: Astrolabes in Medieval cultures
• ISBN: 90-04-38786-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810496803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II