Studies in Medieval Astronomy and Optics

Studies in Medieval Astronomy and Optics

Mancha, J.L.

Taylor & Francis Ltd

06/2019

352

Mole

Inglês

9781138382558

15 a 20 dias

648

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Contents: Preface. Astronomy and Optics: Egidius of Baisiu's theory of pinhole images; Astronomical use of pinhole images in William of Saint-Cloud's Almanach planetarum (1292). The astronomy of Levi Ben Gerson: The Latin translation of Levi ben Gerson's astronomy; Levi ben Gerson's astronomical work: chronology and Christian context; Heuristic reasoning: approximation procedures in Levi ben Gerson's astronomy; The ProvenA?al version of Levi ben Gerson's table for eclipses; Right ascensions and hippopedes: homocentric models in Levi ben Gerson's astronomy, I: first anomaly. Arabic Astronomy in Western Texts: Ibn al-Haytham's homocentric epicycles in Latin astronomical texts of the 14th and 15th centuries; On Ibn al-Kammad's table for trepidation; A note on Copernicus' 'correction' of Ptolemy's mean synodic month; Al-Bitruji's theory of the motions of the fixed stars. Addenda et corrigenda; Index.
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Levi Ben Gershom;Lunar;Synodic Month;Lunar Model;Lunar Eclipse;Hebrew Version;Vice Versa;Alhazen;Ibn Al Haytham;Pinhole Images;Superior Planets;Solar Eclipse;Levi's Work;Thabit Ibn Qurra;Ascending Node;Hebrew Manuscripts;DCF;Solar Parallax;Homocentric Spheres;Sco;Della;Latin Version;Ibn Qurra;Oblique Circle;Sequitur Quod