He reveals how medieval Islamic advances in the study of the heavens and the design of precise astronomical instruments, led to breakthroughs by Renaissance practitioners such as Copernicus …

(v) Astronomical figure of Sagittarius represented as a centaur-like figure wearing a plumed helmet and shooting an arrow backwards. His animal part is shaped as a lion, the tail terminating in a dragon s …

AB, by A}: ma I (ft. 750/1349). [ Astronomical tables, being a re ision of al-Kami! Ji 'l-asfurl b . by A}:ima b. Mu}:iammad b. Kathir AL-FARGHANI (ft. rd/9t ce tury).] Foll. 53. 27·5 x 18·5 cm. Clea scholar's …

The Islamic astronomers took the astrolabe and developed it into an astronomical instrument, timekeeper, navigation device and computer. The principal of the astrolabe is simple enough. The …

CIRCA 1660 Astronomical tables, compiled in 860 (1456) by Rukn ibn Sharaf al-Din Husain! Amull for the Timurid Shah Aba Said, who ruled 855-72 (1452-67); see Storey, ii.

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454 TAQViM (ASTRONOMICAL ALMANAC) BEGINNING. UU AUTHOR,Perhaps arranged by Mustafa b. Muhammad Katib-zada, v.i.under {a). TITLE. CONTENTS. The book has, as an annex, a wooden …

12 European inventions. These were communicated to the Chinese court by western missionaries, particularly those of the Jesuit order, whose influence at the Peking court had been established by …

Astronomical diagrams. Foil. 67, 6yb, 6Sb,69, 6gb,71 (the Angel 'Azrall before Solomon), yib(Angels of the Seven Heavens), 72^ (Angels). RBC 177-86. Fol. 73. Harut and Marut hung downwards in the …

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