The Arabs and the Stars: Texts and Traditions on the Fixed Stars and their Influence in Medieval Europe

Variorum
Paul Kunitzsch
ISBN: 0860782557
price: $127.95   hardcover

Contents: Preface; Star catalogues and star tables; Das Fixsternverzeichnis in der "Persischen Syntaxis" des Georgios Chrysokokkes; Die arabische Herkunft von zwei Sternverzeichnissen; Two star tables from Muslim Spain; New light on al-Batta-nÈ-'s ZÈ-j; On medieval Arabic knowledge of Alpha Eridani; Observations on the Arabic reception of the astrolabe; Remarks regarding the terminology of the astrolabe; Al-Khwa-rizmÈ- as a source for the Sententie astrolabii; On the authenticity of the treatise on the astrolabe ascribed to Messahalla; The astronomer Abu 'l-Husayn al-Su-fÈ- and his book on the constellations; Zum "liber hermetis de stellis beibeniis"; Neues zum "liber hermetis"; Stelle beibenie-al-kawa-kib al-biyabanÈ-ya; Die "Unwettersterne" und die "Geomantie" des Zana-tÈ-; Zur Tradition der "Unwettersterne"; Abu- Ma's"a-r, Johannes Hispalensis und Alkameluz; al-Kutb; al-Madjarra; al-Mana-zil; John of London and his source; The star catalogue to the Alfonsine Tables; Peter Apian and 'Azophi': Arabic constellations in Renaissance astronomy; A note on star names; Zur Namengebung Kairos (al-Qa-hir = Mars?); Der Sternhimmel in der "Dichterischen Vergleichen der Andalus-Araber"; Zeus in Bagdad; The 'Description of the night' in Gurga-nÈ-'s VÈ-s u Ra-mÈ-n; Annotated index of nautical star names; Indexes.