| Autor: |
Hugonnard-Roche, Henri, Rashed, Roshdi, Morelon, Régis |
| Zdroj: |
Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science; 1996, Issue 1, p287-308, 22p |
| Abstrakt: |
This chapter discusses the contribution of Arabic science to the birth and subsequent development of astronomy in the Latin West. Prior to this contribution, there was indeed no astronomy of any advanced level in those countries. What was understood by astronomy was scarcely more than a collection of imprecise cosmological ideas concerning the shape and size of the world, and some basic notions about the movements of celestial bodies, principally concerning synodical phenomena, such as heliacal risings and settings. The first evidence of the penetration of Arabic astronomy in the Latin West relates to the stereographic astrolabe. The astrolabe was not only the educational instrument par excellence of the Middle Ages, but also an instrument of calculation, permitting the rapid geometrical solution of the principal problems of spherical astronomy. |
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