This dissertation explores the intellectual, cultural, and political history of knowledge in the
late-medieval and early modern Ottoman context by examining the fifteenth-and sixteenth …

The Mongols established an empire that ruled over two thirds of Eurasia. This was achieved,
so they believed, by the will of heaven. Therefore, they had a great interest in reading the …

From Antiquity through the early modern period, the apparent motion of the Sun in longitude
was simulated by the eccentric model set forth in Ptolemy's Almagest III, with the …

This paper is a technical study of the systematic observations and computations made by
Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Maghribī (d. 1283) at the Maragha observatory (north-western Iran, c. 1259 …

From the early ninth century until about eight centuries later, the Middle East witnessed a
series of both simple and systematic astronomical observations for the purpose of testing …

This paper presents an analysis of the systematic astronomical observations performed by
Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Maghribī (d. 1283 AD) at the Maragha observatory (northwestern Iran, ca …

In the Almagest, Ptolemy finds that the apogee of Mercury moves progressively at a speed
equal to his value for the rate of precession, namely one degree per century, in the tropical …

Esta investigación se remonta hasta los primeros antecedentes de los observatorio
astronómicos para seguir su evolución histórica y desarrollar un marco teórico desde el …

This article aims to shed light on a hitherto unknown transmission route of the astral
sciences from Alamut to Dadu (Bei**g). I argue that the huntianyi 渾天儀, an armillary …

Farīd al-Dīn Abu al-Ḥasan 'Alī b. al-Fahhād's astronomical tradition as represented in the
prolegomenon to his Alā'ī zīj (1172 AD) shows his experimental examination of the theories …