Early Arabic Critique of Ptolemaic Cosmology: A Ninth-Century Text on the Motion of the Celestial Spheres

1994/05/01 by George Saliba · 6 citations
Physics and Astronomy · Arts and Humanities · #Historical Astronomy and Related Studies #Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies #Historical and Architectural Studies

paper · doi:10.1177/002182869402500205

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Abstract

L'A. decrit l'histoire de l'astronomie et etudie la tradition arabe qui a modifie et critique les textes grecs

Cited by

• Islamic reception of Greek astronomy
• The sciences in Islamic societies (750–1800)
• Science and Medicine
• Astronomy in the medieval Islamic world [wikipedia]
• Cosmology in the Muslim world [wikipedia]
• History of astronomy [wikipedia]