A Brief Introduction to Astronomy in the Middle East

Informationen zum Autor John M. Steele is a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Durham, where he researches and teaches the history of astronomy. Also by the Same Author Observations and Predictions of Eclipse Times by Early Astronomers (Kluwer Academic Publishers) Klappentext One of two titles launching a series offering insight into Arabic advances in science and culture. Zusammenfassung Traces the development of the Late Babylonians' ingenious schemes for modelling planetary motion. This work reveals how medieval Islamic advances in the study of the heavens! and the design of precise astronomical instruments! led to breakthroughs by Renaissance practitioners such as Copernicus and Kepler.

Klappentext
One of two titles launching a series offering insight into Arabic advances in science and culture.


Zusammenfassung
Traces the development of the Late Babylonians' ingenious schemes for modelling planetary motion. This work reveals how medieval Islamic advances in the study of the heavens, and the design of precise astronomical instruments, led to breakthroughs by Renaissance practitioners such as Copernicus and Kepler.

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