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I was introduced to Tiisi: and his Tadhkira some 19 years ago. That first meeting was neither happy nor auspicious. My graduate student notes from the time indicate a certain level of confusion and frustration; I seem to have had trouble with such words as tadwlr (epicycle), which was not to be found in my standard dictionary, and with the concept of solid-sphere astronomy, which, when found, was pooh-poohed in the standard sources. I had another, even more decisive reaction: boredom. Only the end of the term brought relief, and I was grateful to be on to other, more exciting aspects of the history of science. A few years later, I found myself, thanks to fellowships from Fulbright-Hays and the American Research Center in Egypt, happily immersed in the manu script collections of Damascus, Aleppo, and Cairo. Though I had intended to work on a topic in the history of mathematics, I was drawn, perhaps inevitably, to a certain type of astronomical writing falling under the rubric of hay' a. At first this fascination was based on sheer numbers; that so many medieval scientists could have written on such a subject must mean something, I told myself. (I was in a sociological mode at the time.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Mathematics & science Mathematics

• Pełny tytuł: Nasir al-Din al-Tusi's Memoir on Astronomy (al-Tadhkira fi cilm al-hay'a), 2 Vols.
• Podtytuł: Volume 1: Introduction, Edition, and Translation. Volume 2: Commentary and Apparatus
• Autor: F. Jamil Ragep
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Twarda
• Liczba stron: 371
• EAN: 9780387940519
• ID: 05247956
• Wydawca: Springer, Berlin
• Waga: 1330 g
• Wymiary: 241 × 162 × 45 mm
• Rok wydania: 1993

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