Star taker: art, science and mathematics in an astrolabe from fourteenth-century Spain

DOI10.1080/17513472.2018.1477037MaRDI QIDQ5374497zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Patricia Bentley

Publication date 14 September 2018

Published in Journal of Mathematics and the Arts (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/17513472.2018.1477037

zbMATH Keywords

medievalastrolabeIslamic metalwork

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the Golden Age of Islam (01A30)

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• Astronomy in the Indus Valley Civilization: A Survey of the Problems and Possibilities of the Ancient Indian Astronomy and Cosmology in the Light of Indus Script Decipherment by the Finnish Scholars
• In synchrony with the heavens. Studies in astronomical timekeeping and instrumentation in medieval Islamic civilization. Vol. 1. The call of the muezzin. Studies I-IX

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