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A Brief Introduction to Astronomy in the Middle East
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The Middle East is the birthplace of astronomy and the centre for its development during the medieval period. In this brief introduction John Steele offers an intriguing insight into Middle Eastern achievements in astronomy and their profound influence on the rest of the world. Amongst other things, the book traces the Late Babylonians' ingenious schemes for modelling planetary motion. It also reveals how medieval Islamic advances in the study of the heavens, and the design of precise astronomical instruments, led to breakthroughs by Renaissance practitioners such as Copernicus and Kepler. An invaluable introduction to one of the oldest sciences in the world.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Astronomy is, together with mathematics, the oldest science in existence. It is also one of the very few instances of a scientific activity that inspired a huge respect and support in a wide variety of civilizations in spite of the fact that its real practical contributions were almost nil (of course its contributions on a psychological and symbolic levels, through religious observance and astrology, and on the philosophical level, were hugely important). This tiny little book, hardly one hundred and forty pages long, is a very nice introduction to the astronomical achievements of the middle eastern peoples from the Mesopotamia's cultures in the third millenium BCE, the Greek and Roman contributions (most notably Ptolemy's, working in Roman Egypt in the second Century CE) up until the medieval Islamic contributions culminating with Nasīr al-Tūsī's and Ibn al-Shātir's improvements on Ptolemy's planetary theory and their possible (indirect) influence upon european scholars such as Regiomontanus and Copernicus. A very interesting book indeed.