336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
Byzantine science has been a largely neglected subject: Byzantinists, whether dealing with the history or the literature, have most often been deterred by the technicalities; historians of Greek science have been more attracted to earlier periods. Yet, even if science in the Byzantine world may not have attained the levels of achievement of the Alexandrian period, or of the Islamic world, it is... Read more
Contents: Avant-propos; L’astronomie byzantine (du Ve au XVe siècles); Le calcul de la longitude de Vénus d’après un texte anonyme du Vat. gr. 184; Le calcul de la longitude des planètes d’apres un texte anonyme du Vat. gr. 184; Sur l’identité de l’astronome Alim; Les tables astronomiques persanes à Constantinople dans la première moitié du XIV siècle; Tables islamiques à Byzance; Un traité astronomique chypriote du XIVe siècle; Calculs d’éclipses byzantins de la fin du XIVe siècle; Enseignement scientifique à Byzance; Addenda et correnda; Index.
Biography
Anne Tihon
'it provides the historian of astronomy, not necessarily a specialist in classical studies, with an important set of papers which he might have missed due to the highly specialised character of the journals in which most of them appeared originally...an extremely useful collection of papers...written by a leading specialist in the field' Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Sciences, Vol. 48, No. 140
