Quṭb al-Dīn Shīrāzī and the configuration of the heavens [electronic resource] : a comparison of texts and models / Kaveh Niazi.
2013
QB23
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Title
Quṭb al-Dīn Shīrāzī and the configuration of the heavens [electronic resource] : a comparison of texts and models / Kaveh Niazi.
Author
Niazi, Kaveh, author.
ISBN
9789400769991 electronic book
9400769997 electronic book
9789400769984
9400769997 electronic book
9789400769984
Published
Dordrecht : Springer, [2013?]
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 189 pages) : illustrations.
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10.1007/978-94-007-6999-1 doi
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QB23
Dewey Decimal Classification
520.9
Summary
As a leading scientist of the 13th century C. E. Quṭb al-Dīn Shīrāzī wrote three substantial works on hay a (or the configuration of the celestial orbs): The Limits of Attainment in the Understanding of the Heavens, The Royal Offering Regarding the Knowledge of the Configuration of the Heavens, and The Mu affar Elections. Completed in less than four years and written in two of the classical languages of the Islamic world, Arabic and Persian, these works provide a fascinating window to the astronomical research carried out in Ilkhanid Persia. Shīrāzī and his colleagues were driven by their desire to rid Ptolemaic astronomy from its perceived shortcomings. An intriguing trail of revisions and emendations in Shīrāzī's hay a texts serves to highlight both those features of Shīrāzī's astronomy that were inherited from his predecessors, as well as his original contributions to this branch of astronomical research. As a renowned savant, Shīrāzī spent a large portion of his career near centers of political power in Persia and Anatolia. A study of his scientific output and career as a scholar is an opportunity, therefore, for an examination of the patronage of science and of scientific works within the Ilkhanid realms. Not only was this patronage important to the work of scholars such as Shīrāzī but it was critical to the founding and operation of one of the foremost scientific institutions of the medieval Islamic world, the Marāgha observatory. The astronomical tradition in which Shīrāzī carried out his research has many links, as well, to the astronomy of Early Modern Europe, as can be seen in the astronomical models of Copernicus.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Archimedes (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; v.35, 1385-0180
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Purpose and Background of Study
Chapter 2. The Mongols in Iran
Chapter 3. Sh raz 's Life
Chapter 4. The Principal Astronomical Sources
Chapter 5. Persian vs. Arabic: Language as a Determinant of Content
Chapter 6. Conclusion
Figures- Bibliography
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E.
Chapter 2. The Mongols in Iran
Chapter 3. Sh raz 's Life
Chapter 4. The Principal Astronomical Sources
Chapter 5. Persian vs. Arabic: Language as a Determinant of Content
Chapter 6. Conclusion
Figures- Bibliography
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E.