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Journal for the History of Astronomy, 2015
Early Arabic sources report the existence of giant astronomical devices housed inside buildings w... more Early Arabic sources report the existence of giant astronomical devices housed inside buildings which were used for observational and computational purposes. Some of them are known to us, but their chronology and their relationship to other well-oriented devices in the Islamic or even in the Latin milieu are yet to be explored in depth. This paper aims to establish whether the zāwiya Nāṣiriyya in Tamegroute (Tamgrūt, in the Drâa valley) described by al-Asf ī (seventeenth to eighteenth century) can be considered as part of this tradition.
Early Arabic sources report the existence of giant astronomical devices housed inside buildings w... more Early Arabic sources report the existence of giant astronomical devices housed inside buildings which were used for observational and computational purposes. Some of them are known to us, but their chronology and their relationship to other well-oriented devices in the Islamic or even in the Latin milieu are yet to be explored in depth. This paper aims to establish whether the zāwiya Nāṣiriyya in Tamegroute (Tamgrūt, in the Drâa valley) described by al-Asf ī (seventeenth to eighteenth century) can be considered as part of this tradition. Preliminaries Arabic sources record references to early celestial observations in the Islamic East. These observations were made in observation posts more than in official observatories, which did not emerge in the region until the thirteenth century. 1 Some of these observation posts were set up in the open air, in public, or private locations; others were housed inside buildings and functioned by using the effects of the Sun's rays. In the ninth century, privately owned posts, like the one belonging to Ahmad al-Nihawandī, who observed the motion of the sun in Jundishāpūr in Persia in 800, overlapped in time with the early astronomical programme sponsored by al-Ma'mūn in the al-Shammāsiyya quarter in Baghdad and in the outskirts of Damascus, at the Dayr Murrān monastery on Mount Qāsiyūn. Al-Ma'mūn sponsored a programme of observations which does not seem to have been carried out in buildings devoted to this aim, but
Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, 2014
Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, 2014
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Journal for the History of Astronomy, 2015
Early Arabic sources report the existence of giant astronomical devices housed inside buildings w... more Early Arabic sources report the existence of giant astronomical devices housed inside buildings which were used for observational and computational purposes. Some of them are known to us, but their chronology and their relationship to other well-oriented devices in the Islamic or even in the Latin milieu are yet to be explored in depth. This paper aims to establish whether the zāwiya Nāṣiriyya in Tamegroute (Tamgrūt, in the Drâa valley) described by al-Asf ī (seventeenth to eighteenth century) can be considered as part of this tradition.
Early Arabic sources report the existence of giant astronomical devices housed inside buildings w... more Early Arabic sources report the existence of giant astronomical devices housed inside buildings which were used for observational and computational purposes. Some of them are known to us, but their chronology and their relationship to other well-oriented devices in the Islamic or even in the Latin milieu are yet to be explored in depth. This paper aims to establish whether the zāwiya Nāṣiriyya in Tamegroute (Tamgrūt, in the Drâa valley) described by al-Asf ī (seventeenth to eighteenth century) can be considered as part of this tradition. Preliminaries Arabic sources record references to early celestial observations in the Islamic East. These observations were made in observation posts more than in official observatories, which did not emerge in the region until the thirteenth century. 1 Some of these observation posts were set up in the open air, in public, or private locations; others were housed inside buildings and functioned by using the effects of the Sun's rays. In the ninth century, privately owned posts, like the one belonging to Ahmad al-Nihawandī, who observed the motion of the sun in Jundishāpūr in Persia in 800, overlapped in time with the early astronomical programme sponsored by al-Ma'mūn in the al-Shammāsiyya quarter in Baghdad and in the outskirts of Damascus, at the Dayr Murrān monastery on Mount Qāsiyūn. Al-Ma'mūn sponsored a programme of observations which does not seem to have been carried out in buildings devoted to this aim, but
Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, 2014
Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, 2014
Reservados todos los derechos. De acuerdo con la legislación vigente, y bajo las sanciones en ell... more Reservados todos los derechos. De acuerdo con la legislación vigente, y bajo las sanciones en ella previstas, queda totalmente prohibida la reproducción y/o transmisión parcial o total de este libro, por procedimientos mecánicos o electrónicos, incluyendo fotocopia, grabación magnética, óptica o cualesquiera otros procedimientos que la técnica permita o pueda permitir en el futuro, sin la expresa autorización por escrito de los propietarios del copyright.