Taking latitude with Ptolemy: Jamshīd al-Kāshī novel geometric model of the motions of the inferior planets

DOI10.1007/S00407-006-0110-ZMaRDI QIDQ2501246zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Glen Van Brummelen

Publication date 4 September 2006

Published in Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-006-0110-z

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the Golden Age of Islam (01A30) History of astronomy and astrophysics (85-03)

Review text

The treatment of his planetary model by Ptolemy has two important defects. He uses plane trigonometry, which results is his replacing sines by arcs in several instances, and he does not investigate the relations between the different motions of the planes carrying deferent and epicycle. The author analyses a chapter in the 15th. Cent. Persian astronomer Jamsh\-ıd al-Kāshī's Khākānī\ Zīj, in which both defects are remedied by treating both deferent and epicycle as great circles on wobbling spheres and using spherical trigonometry, explaining the mathematics in detail. A translation of the chapter by \textit{Sergei Tourkin} (St. Petersburg) is included in an appendix.

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