Stars and Numbers: Astronomy and Mathematics in the Medieval Arab and Western Worlds

Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004. Small quarto in blue cloth; (various pagings; approx. 300); 24 cm; bibliographical references and indexes. Ex-library with minimal institutional markings,and overall near fine thus. Please see photos. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780860789680

Texts in English, German, and French. Contents: Ptolemy in the Arabic-Latin tradition -- I. Gerard's translations of astronomical texts, especially the Almagest -- II. Gerhard von Cremona als Ubersetzer des Almagest -- III. Uber einige Spuren der syrischen Almagestilbersetzung -- IV. Die astronomische Terminologie im Almagest -- V. A hitherto unknown Arabic manuscript of the Almagest -- VI. The second Arabic manuscript of Ptolemy's Planisphaerium -- VII. The role of al-Andalus in the transmission of Ptolemy's Planisphaerium and Almagest -- VIII. Fragments of Ptolemy's Planisphaerium in an early Latin translation -- IX. Das arabische als vermittler und anreger europaischer Wissenchaftssprache -- X. Erfahrungen und Beobachtungen bei der Arbeit mit Texten der arabisch-lateinischen Ubersetzungsliteratur (Mathematik/Astronomie) -- Arabic astronomy -- XI. The chapter on the fixed stars in Zaradusht's Kitab al-mawalid -- XII. The astronomer Al-sufi as a source for Ulug Beg's star catalogue (1437) -- XIII. Al-sufi and the astrolabe stars -- XIV. An Arabic celestial globe from the Schmidt collection, Vienna -- Arabic astronomy in the west -- XV. Les relations scientifiques entre l'occident et le monde arabe a l'epoque de Gerbert -- XVI. Traces of a tenth-century Spanish-Arabic astrolabe -- XVII. La table des climats dans le corpus des plus anciens textes latins sur l'astrolabe -- XVIII. The stars on the rete of the so-called "Carolingian astrolabe" / Elly Dekker -- XIX. Three dubious stars in the oldest European table of astrolabe stars -- XX. The chapter on the stars in an early European treatise on the use of the astrolabe (ca. A.D. 1000) -- XXI. A note on Ascelinus' table of astrolabe stars -- XXII. On six kinds of astrolabe: a hitherto unknown Latin treatise -- XXIII. Zur Problematik der Astrolabsterne: eine weitere unbrauchbare Sterntafel -- XXIV. Coronell's great celestial globe made for Louis XIV: the nomenclature -- XXV. Ratselhafte Sternnamen -- Mathematics and numbers -- XXVI. Findings in some texts of Euclid's Elements (mediaeval transmission, Arabo-Latin) -- XXVII. "The peacock's tail": on the names of some theorems of Euclid's Elements -- XXVIII. Letters in geometrical diagrams, Greek -- Arabic -- Latin -- XXIX. The transmission of Hindu-Arabic numerals reconsidered. // Astronomy -- Mathematics. Astronomy, Medieval. Astronomy, Arab -- History. Astronomy -- Europe -- History. Astronomie -- Mathématiques. Astronomie médiévale. Astronomie arabe -- Histoire. Astronomie -- Europe -- Histoire. Astronomia araba -- Storia. Matematica araba -- Storia. Astronomy. Astronomy, Arab. Astronomy -- Mathematics. Astronomy, Medieval. Astronomie Rezeption History of Science