This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A characteristic hallmark of medieval astronomy is the replacement of Ptolemy's linear precession with so-called models of trepidation, which ...

In medieval times, astrology was considered a serious science, a branch of astronomy. Curator Larisa Grollemond of the Getty Museum, walks us through the medieval zodiac and how someone’s sign ...

A group of artists will stage performances and interventions at the Getty Center inspired by its exhibition, The Wondrous Cosmos in Medieval Manuscripts.

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived in the Egyptian city of Alexandria while ...

A brisk and engaging book about medieval science, which should dispel any lingering thought that "medieval science" is an oxymoron.

Born in Kath, Khwarezm – a region that today would be cover parts of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan – Abu Raihan ...

LONDON — A device that helped medieval scientists tell time will remain in Britain after the British Museum scrambled to come up with the money to buy it.

News Ahead of April 8 total solar eclipse, UT Arlington students embrace medieval astronomy Partnering with librarians, the students produced an exhibit, opening March 26, comprising maps ...

A rare astronomy tool that helped medieval scientists tell time will remain in Britain after the British Museum scrambled to come up with the money to buy it.

Ibn al-Muthannâ's Commentary on the Astronomical Tables of al Khwârizmî Edited and translated, with an astronomical commentary, by Bernard R. Goldstein. (Yale Studies in the History of Science ...

Kathrin Chlench, "SPHERA SOLIDA" — A TREATISE ON THE CELESTIAL GLOBE AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE IN LATE MEDIEVAL ASTRONOMY, Globe Studies, No. 57/58, PAPERS, READ AT THE 11TH CORONELLI SYMPOSIUM, VENICE ...