The astronomies of al-Sufi's "Book of the Constellations of the Fixed Stars"
by Brown, Laurel, Ph.D., COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, 2009, 387 pages; 3374102

Abstract:

This thesis will look at the astronomy surrounding The Book of the Constellations of the Fixed Stars, by the Arabic-writing astronomer al-S&dotbelow;ūfī. The origins of the fixed-star astronomy included in al-S&dotbelow;ūfī's book, both Greek and Arabic, will be analyzed and compared. al-S&dotbelow;ūfī's own use of those astronomies, especially in the ways that he criticized, corrected, and universalized them, paved the way for a new and more widely-applicable astronomy. In addition to providing the most important source on fixed-star astronomy in Arabic, the information from al-S&dotbelow;ūfī's book transferred to the later astronomies of Europe and East Africa.

 
AdviserGeorge Saliba
SchoolCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
SourceDAI/A 70-08, p. , Nov 2009
Source TypeDissertation
SubjectsMiddle Eastern history; Medieval history; History of science
Publication Number3374102
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