Astronomy and Astrology in the Islamic World
(Part of the The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys Series)
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Surveys the contributions of Islamic astronomers and mathematicians to the development of astronomy and astrology It was the astronomers and mathematicians of the Islamic world who provided the theories and concepts that paved the way from the geocentric theories of Claudius Ptolemy in the second century AD to the heliocentric breakthroughs of Nicholas Copernicus and Johannes Kepler in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Algebra, the Arabic...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0748649093
ISBN13:9780748649099
Release Date:April 2016
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Length:184 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"
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