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Author : William H. Morley
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Total Pages : 22 pages
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Download or read book Description of an Arabic Quadrant written by William H. Morley and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : François Charette
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004130159
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Kitāb Fī Al-ālāt Al-falakīyah written by François Charette and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of mathematical instrumentation in the Mamluk world contains the edition and translation of a unique, richly-illustrated treatise, and provides a fascinating historical account of several instrument models that were thus far unknown or inadequately documented.
Author : David A. King
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000585018
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Islamic Astronomy and Geography written by David A. King and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-02-13 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of 12 studies, mainly published during the past 15 years, begins with an overview of the Islamic astronomy covering not only sophisticated mathematical astronomy and instrumentation but also simple folk astronomy, and the ways in which astronomy was used in the service of religion. It continues with discussions of the importance of Islamic instruments and scientific manuscript illustrations. Three studies deal with the regional schools that developed in Islamic astronomy, in this case, Egypt and the Maghrib. Another focuses on a curious astrological table for calculating the length of life of any individual. The notion of the world centred on the sacred Kaaba in Mecca inspired both astronomers and proponents of folk astronomy to propose methods for finding the qibla, or sacred direction towards the Kaaba; their activities are surveyed here. The interaction between the mathematical and folk traditions in astronomy is then illustrated by an 11th-century text on the qibla in Transoxania. The last three studies deal with an account of the geodetic measurements sponsored by the Caliph al-Ma'mûn in the 9th century; a world-map in the tradition of the 11th-century polymath al-Bîrûnî, alas corrupted by careless copying; and a table of geographical coordinates from 15th-century Egypt.
Author : Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society written by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma
Publisher : tredition
ISBN 13 : 3748227833
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (482 download)
Download or read book A Descriptive Catalogue of Indian Astronomical Instruments written by Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma and published by tredition. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The large masonry instruments designed by Sawai Jai Singh and erected in his five observatories in the early eighteenth century mark the culmination of a long process of development in astronomical instrumentation. But what kind of astronomical instruments were used in India before Jai Singh's time? Sanskrit texts on astronomy describe the construction and use of several types of instruments. Are any of these extant in museums? Such questions led me to an exploration of nearly a hundred museums and private collections in India, Europe and USA for about a quarter century. The present catalogue is the outcome of this exploration. This catalogue describes each instrument in the context of the related extant specimens, while laying special emphasis on the interplay between Sanskrit and Islamic traditions of instrumentation. Therefore, each instrument type is organized in a separate section identified by the letters of the alphabet. These sections begin with introductory essays on the history of the instrument type and its varieties, followed by a full technical description of every specimen, with art historical notes. Moreover, all engraved data are reproduced and interpreted as far as possible. In some 4300 pages, it contains 600 entries, with introductory essays and long extracts from two important Sanskrit texts, namely Mahendra Sūri's Yantrarāja and Padmanābha's Dhruvabhramādhikāra, along with English translations. Following a suggestion that a shorter version of the Catalogue, consisting of all the introductory essays and appendices, but excluding the catalogue proper, would be easier for the general reader to handle, this Abridged Version has been prepared. The pagination here remains the same as in the Catalogue. Those who wish to read about individual instruments can always consult the Catalogue.
Author : Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland written by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
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Total Pages : 510 pages
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Download or read book The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland written by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel A. Stolz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110817406X
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The Lighthouse and the Observatory written by Daniel A. Stolz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An observatory and a lighthouse form the nexus of this major new investigation of science, religion, and the state in late Ottoman Egypt. Astronomy, imperial bureaucrats, traditionally educated Muslim scholars, and reformist Islamic publications, such as The Lighthouse, are linked to examine the making of knowledge, the performance of piety, and the operation of political power through scientific practice. Contrary to ideas of Islamic scientific decline, Muslim scholars in the nineteenth century used a dynamic tradition of knowledge to measure time, compute calendars, and predict planetary positions. The rise of a 'new astronomy' is revealed to owe much to projects of political and religious reform: from the strengthening of the multiple empires that exercised power over the Nile Valley; to the 'modernization' of Islamic centers of learning; to the dream of a global Islamic community that would rely on scientific institutions to coordinate the timing of major religious duties.
Author : Royal Astronomical Society
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Astronomical Society written by Royal Astronomical Society and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Willy vande Walle
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789058673152
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (731 download)
Download or read book The History of the Relations Between the Low Countries and China in the Qing Era (1644-1911) written by Willy vande Walle and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
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Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Book Catalogues written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1074 pages
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Download or read book Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David King
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047406753
Total Pages : 1142 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book In Synchrony with the Heavens, Volume 2 Instruments of Mass Calculation written by David King and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first investigation of one of the main interests of astronomy in Islamic civilization, namely, timekeeping by the sun and stars and the regulation of the astronomically-defined times of Muslim prayer. The study is based on over 500 medieval astronomical manuscripts first identified by the author, now preserved in libraries all over the world and originally from the entire Islamic world from the Maghrib to Central Asia and the Yemen. The materials presented provide new insights into the early development of the prayer ritual in Islam. They also call into question the popular notion that religion could not inspire serious scientific activity. Only one of the hundreds of astronomical tables discussed here was known in medieval Europe, which is one reason why the entire corpus has remained unknown until the present. A second volume, also to be published by Brill, deals with astronomical instruments for timekeeping and other computing devices.
Author : Irene A. Bierman
Publisher : Garnet & Ithaca Press
ISBN 13 : 9780863722981
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Text & Context in Islamic Societies written by Irene A. Bierman and published by Garnet & Ithaca Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of papers from the sixteenth Giorgio Levi Della Vida conference wihch honored Andre Raymond and Josef van Ess.
Author : Carl Brockelmann
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004326324
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book History of the Arabic Written Tradition Volume 2 written by Carl Brockelmann and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present English translation reproduces the original German of Carl Brockelmann’s Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL) as accurately as possible. In the interest of user-friendliness the following emendations have been made in the translation: Personal names are written out in full, except b. for ibn; Brockelmann’s transliteration of Arabic has been adapted to comply with modern standards for English-language publications; modern English equivalents are given for place names, e.g. Damascus, Cairo, Jerusalem, etc.; several erroneous dates have been corrected, and the page references to the two German editions have been retained in the margin, except in the Supplement volumes, where new references to the first two English volumes have been inserted.
Author : Helaine Selin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 140204559X
Total Pages : 2428 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures written by Helaine Selin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-03-12 with total page 2428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, at last, is the massively updated and augmented second edition of this landmark encyclopedia. It contains approximately 1000 entries dealing in depth with the history of the scientific, technological and medical accomplishments of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. The entries consist of fully updated articles together with hundreds of entirely new topics. This unique reference work includes intercultural articles on broad topics such as mathematics and astronomy as well as thoughtful philosophical articles on concepts and ideas related to the study of non-Western Science, such as rationality, objectivity, and method. You’ll also find material on religion and science, East and West, and magic and science.
