Stars And Numbers: Astronomy And Mathematics In The Medieval Arab And Western Worlds (variorum Collected Studies)

The studies brought together in this second collection of articles by Paul Kunitzsch continue the lines of research evident in his previous volume (The Arabs and the Stars). The Arabic materials discussed stem mostly from the early period of the development of Arabic-Islamic astronomy up to about 1000AD, while the Latin materials belong to the first stage of Western contact with Arabic science at the end of the 10th century, and to the peak of Arabic-Latin translation activity in 12th century Spain. The first set of articles focuses upon Ptolemy in the Arabic-Latin tradition, followed by further ones on Arabic astronomy and its reception in the West; the final group looks at details of the transmission of Euclid's Elements. Cover 1 Series Page 3 Half Title 4 Title Page 6 Copyright Page 7 Table of Contents 8 Preface 14 Acknowledgements 17 Ptolemy in the Arabic-Latin Tradition 18 I: Gerard’s Translations of Astronomical Texts, Especially the Almagest 18 II: Gerhard Von Cremona Als Übersetzer Des Almagest 32 III: Über Einige Spuren Der Syrischen Almagestübersetzung 44 IV: Die Astronomische Terminologie Im Almagest 52 V: A Hitherto Unknown Arabic Manuscript of the Almagest 64 VI: The Second Arabic Manuscript of Ptolemy’s Planisphaerium 72 VII: The Role of Al-Andalus in the Transmission of Ptolemy’s Planisphaerium and Almagest 80 VIII: Fragments of Ptolemy’s Planisphaerium in an Early Latin Translation 90 IX: Das Arabische Als Vermittler Und Anreger Europäischer Wissenschaftssprache 96 X: Erfahrungen Und Beobachtungen Bei Der Arbeit Mit Texten Der Arabisch-Lateinischen Übersetzungsliteratur (Mathematik/ Astronomie) 104 Arabic Astronomy 116 XI: The Chapter on the Fixed Stars in Zarādusht’s Kitāb Al-Mawālād 116 XII: The Astronomer Al-Ṣūfī as a Source for Uluġ Beg’s Star Catalogue (1437) 126 XIII: Al-Ṣūfī and the Astrolabe Stars 134 XIV: An Arabic Celestial Globe from the Schmidt Collection, Vienna 150 Arabic Astronomy in the West 160 XV: Les Relations Scientifiques Entre L’Occident Et Le Monde Arabe à L’époque De Gerbert 160 XVI: Traces of a Tenth-Century Spanish-Arabic Astrolabe 172 XVII: La Table Des Climats Dans Le Corpus Des Plus Anciens Textes Latins Sur L’Astrolabe 180 XVIII: The Stars on the Rete of the So-Called “Carolingian Astrolabe” (With Elly Dekker) 190 XIX: Three Dubious Stars in the Oldest European Table of Astrolabe Stars 208 XX: The Chapter on the Stars in an Early European Treatise on the Use of the Astrolabe (ca. AD 1000) 222 XXI: A Note on Ascelinus’ Table of Astrolabe Stars 230 XXII: On Six Kinds of Astrolabe: A Hitherto Unknown Latin Treatise 236 XXIII: Zur Problematik Der Astrolabsterne: Eine Weitere Unbrauchbare Sterntafel 246 XXIV: Coronelli’s Great Celestial Globe Made for Louis XIV: The Nomenclature 258 XXV: Rätselhafte Sternnamen 276 Mathematics and Numbers 282 XXVI: Findings in Some Texts of Euclid’s Elements (Mediaeval Transmission, Arabo-Latin) 282 XXVII: “The Peacock’s Tail”: On the Names of Some Theorems of Euclid’s Elements 296 XXVIII: Letters in Geometrical Diagrams, Greek – Arabic – Latin 306 XXIX: The Transmission of Hindu-Arabic Numerals Reconsidered 326 Index of Names 346 Index of Manuscripts 352 Arabic-Latin,Astronomy,Mathematics,Translations This is the second collection of articles by Kunitzsch on Arabic- Islamic astronomy and its reception in medieval Europe. In this multi- lingual edition (English, German and French) Kunitzsch examines Ptolemy in the Arabic-Latin tradition, including and article or Gerard's translations of astronomical texts; Arabic astronomy, including a piece on Al-Sufi and the astrolabe stars; Arabic astronomy in the West, including an article on the Arab world in the times of de Gebert; and mathematics and numbers, including two articles on his research on Euclid's Elements). Kunitzsch includes indices of names and manuscripts. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR