Astronomy and Astrology in the Islamic World

by Stephen P. Blake

Book Overview

Surveys the contributions of Islamic astronomers and mathematicians to the development of astronomy and astrology

It was the astronomers and mathematicians of the Islamic world who provided the theories and concepts that paved the way from the geocentric theories of Claudius Ptolemy in the second century AD to the heliocentric breakthroughs of Nicholas Copernicus and Johannes Kepler in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Algebra, the Arabic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748649093
• ISBN13: 9780748649099
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"