Islamic astronomical tables : mathematical analysis and historical investigation /: mathematical analysis and historical investigation. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Benno van Dalen.
• Authors: Dalen, Benno van
• Contents: Contents: Preface; Part 1 Methods for Analysing Astronomical Tables: A statistical method for recovering unknown parameters from medieval astronomical tables; On Ptolemy’s table for the equation of time; A table for the true solar longitude in the Jami’ Zij; Al-Khwarizmi’s astronomical tables revisited: analysis of the equation of time; Origin of the mean motion tables of Jai Singh. Part 2 Studies of Zijes: The Zij-i Nasiri by Mahmud ibn ‘Umar. The earliest Indian-Islamic astronomical handbook with tables and its relation the Ala i Zij; A second manuscript of the Mumtahan Zij; Re-editing the tables in the Sabi’ Zij by al-Battani (ca. AD 900) (with Fritz S. Pedersen); Dates and eras in the Islamic world: era chronology in astronomical handbooks; Indexes.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 520.91767; Islamic astronomy; Islamic astronomy -- Tables
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000950977
• Related ISBNs: 9781000944198
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