A History Of Arabic Astronomy by George Saliba
Planetary Theories During the Golden Age of Islam
A concise study of the evolution of planetary theory in the medieval Islamic world, detailing how scholars critiqued and reconstructed Ptolemaic astronomy through sophisticated mathematical models and kinematic devices. It places these innovations within their institutional and intellectual contexts, emphasizing internal scientific motivations over passive transmission. The analysis also traces the channels through which this corpus of work informed the astronomical transformations of early modern Europe.
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- 1994
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- American
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- 300-320
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