Reflections on Observational Astronomy in the Medieval Islamic Period

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Solar Astronomy
	1 Limitations of Methods: The Accuracy of the Values Measured for the Earth’s/Sun’s Orbital Elements in the Middle East, 800–1500 CE
Part II Lunar Astronomy and Theory of Eclipses
	2 How Natural Phenomena Were Justified in Medieval Science: The Situation of Annular Eclipses in Medieval Astronomy
	3 Wābkanawī’s Observation and Calculations of the Annular Solar Eclipse of January 30, 1283
	4 Bīrūnī’s Examination of the Path of the Center of the Epicycle in Ptolemy’s Lunar Model
	5 Solar and Lunar Observations at Istanbul in the 1570s
Part III Planetary Astronomy
	6 Four-Point Method for Determining the Eccentricity and the Direction of the Apsidal Lines of the Sun and Superior Planets
	7 Planetary Latitudes in Medieval Islamic Astronomy: An Analysis of the Non-Ptolemaic Latitude Parameter Values in the Marāgha and Samarqand Astronomical Traditions
	8 Holding or Breaking with Ptolemy’s Generalization: Considerations About the Motion of the Planetary Apsidal Lines in Medieval Islamic Astronomy
	9 Astronomical Observations at the Marāgha Observatory in the 1260s–1270s
Part IV Stellar Astronomy
	10 A Medieval Bright Star Table: The Non-Ptolemaic Star Table in the Īlkhānī Zīj
Part V Observational Instrumentation
	11 Ghāzān Khān’s Astronomical Innovations at Marāgha Observatory
		Appendix
Index