Arabic Astronomical and Astrological Sciences in Latin Translation
Title | Arabic Astronomical and Astrological Sciences in Latin Translation PDF eBook |
Author | Francis James Carmody |
Publisher | |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1956 |
Genre | Arabic literature |
ISBN |
Arabic Astronomical and Astrological Sciences in Latin Translation
Title | Arabic Astronomical and Astrological Sciences in Latin Translation PDF eBook |
Author | Francis J. Carmody |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2023-11-10 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0520345401 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.
The Arabs and the Stars
Title | The Arabs and the Stars PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Kunitzsch |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 339 |
Release | 2017-05-15 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1351894765 |
The influence of Arabic-Islamic science on European astronomy is still evident in the number of terms and star names which derive from the Arabic. These articles examine what the Arabs - and other peoples of the Islamic world - knew about the fixed stars and the constellations, and the astrological traditions they associated with them. Professor Kunitzsch shows how the early folk astronomy of the Arabs was radically altered, without being swept away, by the discovery of ancient Greek, also Indian and Persian, sources; by far the most important of these was the Almagest of Ptolemy. This knowledge was then transmitted to medieval Europe, to Byzantium and, especially, to Spain, as the articles go on to describe, and was a vital factor in stimulating the development of scientific thought in the West.
Image, Imagination, and Cognition
Title | Image, Imagination, and Cognition PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 339 |
Release | 2018-07-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004365745 |
Multiple accounts of how theories of human psychology and of image-making influenced each other in a decisive period in the history of philosophy and art.
Medieval Latin Christian Texts on the Jewish Calendar
Title | Medieval Latin Christian Texts on the Jewish Calendar PDF eBook |
Author | C. Philipp E. Nothaft |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 702 |
Release | 2014-05-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 900427412X |
During the later Middle Ages (twelfth to fifteenth centuries), the study of chronology, astronomy, and scriptural exegesis among Christian scholars gave rise to Latin treatises that dealt specifically with the Jewish calendar and its adaptation to Christian purposes. In Medieval Latin Christian Texts on the Jewish Calendar C. Philipp E. Nothaft offers the first assessment of this phenomenon in the form of critical editions, English translations, and in-depth studies of five key texts, which together shed fascinating new light on the avenues of intellectual exchange between medieval Jews and Christians.
Dante's Christian Astrology
Title | Dante's Christian Astrology PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Kay |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2016-11-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1512803103 |
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Dante Encyclopedia
Title | Dante Encyclopedia PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Lansing |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 2067 |
Release | 2010-09-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1136849718 |
Available for the first time in paperback, this essential resource presents a systematic introduction to Dante's life and works, his cultural context and intellectual legacy. The only such work available in English, this Encyclopedia: brings together contemporary theories on Dante, summarizing them in clear and vivid prose provides in-depth discussions of the Divine Comedy, looking at title and form, moral structure, allegory and realism, manuscript tradition, and also taking account of the various editions of the work over the centuries contains numerous entries on Dante's other important writings and on the major subjects covered within them addresses connections between Dante and philosophy, theology, poetics, art, psychology, science, and music as well as critical perspective across the ages, from Dante's first critics to the present.