{"product_id":"astrolabes-in-medieval-cultures-9789004383807","title":"Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst published as a special issue of the journal Medieval Encounters (vol. 23, 2017), this volume, edited by Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Charles Burnett, Silke Ackermann, and Ryan Szpiech, brings together fifteen studies on various aspects of the astrolabe in medieval cultures. The astrolabe, developed in antiquity and elaborated throughout the Middle Ages, was used for calculation, teaching, and observation, and also served astrological and medical purposes. It was the most popular and prestigious of the mathematical instruments, and was found equally among practitioners of various sciences and arts as among princes in royal courts. By considering sources and instruments from Muslim, Christian, and Jewish contexts, this volume provides state-of-the-art research on the history and use of the astrolabe throughout the Middle Ages.    Contributors are Silke Ackermann, Emilia Calvo, John Davis, Laura Fernández Fernández, Miquel Forcada, Azucena Hernández, David A. King, Taro Mimura, Günther Oestmann, Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma, Petra G. Schmidl, Giorgio Strano, Flora Vafea, and Johannes Thomann.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface to the New Edition   Ryan Szpiech    Preface  Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures   Josefina Rodriguez-Arribas, Charles Burnett, and Silke Ackermann    Introduction  Hic Sunt Dragones—Astrolabe Research Revisited   Silke Ackermann    Astrolabes as Eclipse Computers: Four Early Arabic Texts on Construction and Use of the Ṣafīḥa Kusūfiyya   Johannes Thomann     The Astrolabe Finger Ring of Bonetus de Latis: Study, Latin Text, and English Translation with Commentary   Josefina Rodriguez Arribas    Some Features of the Old Castilian Alfonsine Translation of ‘Alī Ibn Khalaf’s Treatise on the Lamina Universal   Emilia Calvo    From the Celestial Globe to the Astrolabe: Transferring the Celestial Motion onto the Plane of the Astrolabe   Flora Vafea    Knowledge in Motion: An Early European Astrolabe and its Possible Medieval Itinerary   Petra G. Schmidl    A Monumental Astrolabe Made for Shāh Jahān and Later Reworked with Sanskrit Legends   Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma    Saphaeae and Hay’āt: The Debate Between Instrumentalism and Realism in al-Andalus   Miguel Forcada    Astrolabes on Parchment: The Astrolabes Depicted in Alfonso X’s Libro Del Saber De Astrologia and Their Relationship to Contemporary Instruments   Laura Fernández Fernández    Fit for a King: Decoding the Great Sloane Astrolabe and Other English Astrolabes with “Quatrefoil” Retes   John Davis    European Astrolabes to ca. 1500: An Ordered List   David A. King     Too Many Arabic Treatises on the Operation of the Astrolabe in the Medieval Islamic World: Athīr al‐Dīn al-Abharī’s Treatise on Knowing the Astrolabe and His Editorial Method   Taro Mimura     Changing the Angle of Vision: Astrolabe Dials on Astronomical Clocks   Günther Oestmann     Astrolabes for the King: The Astrolabe of Petrus Raimundi of Barcelona   Azucena Hernández    A New Approach to the Star Data of Early Planispheric Astrolabes   Giorgio Strano    Epilogue  Reconstruction of the Plate of Eclipses according to the Description by ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā   Flora Vafea    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210761888087,"sku":"9789004383807","price":91.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/astrolabes-in-medieval-cultures-9789004383807","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}