Wābkanawī's prediction and calculations of the annular solar eclipse of 30 January 1283

DOI10.1016/j.hm.2013.04.001zbMath1287.01009OpenAlexW2020161755MaRDI QIDQ391340

S. Mohammad Mozaffari

Publication date: 10 January 2014

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2013.04.001

zbMATH Keywords

iterative processannular eclipseMaragha observatorymedieval astronomyMuḥyī al Dīn al-MaghribīShams al-Dīn Wābkanawī

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the Golden Age of Islam (01A30) Celestial mechanics (70F15) Statistical astronomy (85A35)

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Planetary latitudes in medieval Islamic astronomy: an analysis of the non-Ptolemaic latitude parameter values in the Maragha and Samarqand astronomical traditions ⋮ A mechanical concentric solar model in Khāzinī's \textit{Mu`tabar zīj} ⋮ Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Maghribī's lunar measurements at the Maragha observatory ⋮ Astronomical observations at the Maragha observatory in the 1260s--1270s ⋮ Ibn al-Fahhād and the great conjunction of 1166 AD ⋮ Solar and lunar observations at Istanbul in the 1570s

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