Freeing Astronomy from Philosophy: An Aspect of Islamic Influence on Science
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Earlier versions of this essay were presented at the "Symposium on Science and Technology Turkish and Islamic World" (Istanbul, June 1994) and at the October 1994 meeting of the Hist Science Society in New Orleans.My sincere thanks to those who offered comments and sugg on both occasions and to two anonymous reviewers, all of whom helped in my own "delive from error."I John Hedley Brooke, Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.Press, 1991), p. 5. 2 Two works that deserve especial mention are A. I. Sabra, "The Appropriation and Subsequent Naturalization of Greek Science in Medieval Islam: A Preliminary Statement," Hist.Sci. 25 (1987):223-43 (reprinted in idem, Optics, Astronomy and Logic: Studies in Arabic Science and Philosophy [Aldershot, U.K.: Variorum, 1994], no. 1, and in Tradition, Transmission, Transformation, ed.E Jamil Ragep and Sally P. Ragep [Leiden:
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- [1]1. Shirdzi's discussion can be found in maqala II, bMb 1, fasl 4 (fols. 46a-47b) of his "Nihayat al- idrak ft dirayat al-aflak" (cit. n. 38), which was completed in A.D. 1281. A similar passage is in his "al-Tuhfa al-shahiyya fi al-hay'a," which appeared in A.D. 1284 (bMb II, fasi 4 [Jdmi' al-Basha MS 287, Mosul (= Arab Leaguefalak musannaf ghayr mufahras Film 346), fols. 15a-18a, and MS Add. 7477, British Museum, London, fols. 9b-l la]). This section of the "Nihaya" was translated into German by Eilhard Wiedemann in "Ueber die Gestalt, Lage und Bewegung der Erde, sowie philo- sophisch-astronomische Betrachtungen von Qutb al-Din al-Schirazzi," Archivfiur die Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik 3 (1912):395-422 (reprinted in E. Wiedemann, Gesammelte Schriften zur arabisch-islamischen Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 3 vols. [Frankfurt am Main: Institut fur Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften, 1984], vol. 2, pp. 637-64).
- [2]2. On the Samarqand observatory, see Aydin Sayilh, The Observatory in Islam (Ankara: Turkish Historical Society, 1960), pp. 259-89.
- [4]4. See A. Adnan Adivar, '"All b. Muhammad al-Kuishdj!," Encyclopedia of Islam, 2nd ed. (Leiden: Brill, 1960), vol. 1, p. 393, and idem, La Science chez les Turcs ottomans (Paris: Maisonneuve, 1939), pp. 33-5. PP Adivar discusses this in his La Science chez les Turcs ottomans (cit. n. 49). For the Istanbul observatory, which the religious establishment forced to be demolished, see Sayili, The Observatory (cit. n. 48), pp. 289-305. (: Jw J, --AX1~ -W LA1 J IO9 5 4 1, C ul W4 OS9j~ JJR.g Uo) 9 O 3~ &4{ lg -l JA Uig Yl~ -? w '.>-l 4Q' &4 S~lg I <) l , J ' Ul A , WLO4JI 1! 4 wJ gr;-I si * is 9 ii > D o *~ ? gX Ji > 'A b>Kg ,lA si > ufs W~ ,_t, 4-,--,Q J ' ~91-1j (wT JU J, ? ii aL U1 ~?' ?1n 9OI I gJLr L a ) JJ J C '
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- Ragep, F. J., & al-Qūshjī, A.
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- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Historical Astronomy and Related Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Historical Philosophy and Science
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › History and Developments in Astronomy
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- Islamic astronomy, philosophy of science, medieval Islamic science, ancient Greek science, science and religion, history of astronomy, Arabic science
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