Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures

Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Ph.D. (2004, Universidad Complutense, Madrid) is a Researcher at the Institut für Judische Studien at the University of Münster.Charles Burnett, Ph.D. (1976, University of Cambridge), is Professor of the History of Arabic/Islamic Influences in Europe at the Warburg Institute, University of London and a Fellow of the British Academy.Silke Ackermann, Ph.D. (1996, Goethe University, Frankfurt), is Director of the Museum of the History of Science at the University of Oxford.Ryan Szpiech, Ph.D. (2006, Yale University) is Associate Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Michigan.

• Preface to the New EditionRyan SzpiechPrefaceAstrolabes in Medieval CulturesJosefina Rodriguez-Arribas, Charles Burnett, and Silke AckermannIntroductionHic Sunt Dragones—Astrolabe Research RevisitedSilke AckermannAstrolabes as Eclipse Computers: Four Early Arabic Texts on Construction and Use of the Ṣafīḥa KusūfiyyaJohannes Thomann The Astrolabe Finger Ring of Bonetus de Latis: Study, Latin Text, and English Translation with CommentaryJosefina Rodriguez ArribasSome Features of the Old Castilian Alfonsine Translation of ‘Alī Ibn Khalaf’s Treatise on the Lamina UniversalEmilia CalvoFrom the Celestial Globe to the Astrolabe: Transferring the Celestial Motion onto the Plane of the AstrolabeFlora VafeaKnowledge in Motion: An Early European Astrolabe and its Possible Medieval ItineraryPetra G. SchmidlA Monumental Astrolabe Made for Shāh Jahān and Later Reworked with Sanskrit LegendsSreeramula Rajeswara SarmaSaphaeae and Hay’āt: The Debate Between Instrumentalism and Realism in al-AndalusMiguel ForcadaAstrolabes on Parchment: The Astrolabes Depicted in Alfonso X’s Libro Del Saber De Astrologia and Their Relationship to Contemporary InstrumentsLaura Fernández FernándezFit for a King: Decoding the Great Sloane Astrolabe and Other English Astrolabes with “Quatrefoil” RetesJohn DavisEuropean Astrolabes to ca. 1500: An Ordered ListDavid A. King Too Many Arabic Treatises on the Operation of the Astrolabe in the Medieval Islamic World: Athīr al‐Dīn al-Abharī’s Treatise on Knowing the Astrolabe and His Editorial MethodTaro Mimura Changing the Angle of Vision: Astrolabe Dials on Astronomical ClocksGünther Oestmann Astrolabes for the King: The Astrolabe of Petrus Raimundi of BarcelonaAzucena HernándezA New Approach to the Star Data of Early Planispheric AstrolabesGiorgio StranoEpilogueReconstruction of the Plate of Eclipses according to the Description by ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsāFlora VafeaIndex