NATS 1745 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Star Catalogue, Astronomy In The Medieval Islamic World, Almagest
17 Jul 2017
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The following questions are covered in the lecture videos (and some from the readings as well): describe how the knowledge of the ancient greeks was preserved during the dark. Why were islamic scholars interested in the astronomical knowledge of the. Interactions between islamic scholars & greek refugees led to translations of greek texts into arabic. Islamic scholars created star catalogue in which the stars were renamed with arabic descriptions. When these catalogue made their way into europe, the arabic star names persisted: what led to the reappearance of the ancient greek texts in europe after the 12th. Islamic scholars continued from where the ancient greeks left off, as the qur"an encourages knowledge of the sky for time keeping. Contact between christian and islamic scholars in muslim spain led to. Burdian theorized that objects have impetus (the force of a moving object).
