Stephen of Pisa and Antioch: Liber Mamonis An Introduction to Ptolemaic Cosmology and Astronomy from the Early Crusader States /

• Main Author: Grupe, Dirk (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences,
• Subjects: Mathematics.; History.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.

This volume aims to make Stephen of Pisa and Antioch's work on the celestial sciences accessible to a wider readership, providing not just the text but a translation and introduction as well. The edition is based on the only known manuscript of the Liber Mamonis, MS Cambrai, Médiathèque d...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• I. Introduction
• 1. Studies in Arabic Astronomy in the Early Crusader States
• 2. The Liber Mamonis, its author and his Main Source
• 3. Stephen's Version of On the Configuration
• 4. The Content and Purpose of Stephen's Commentary
• 5. Stephen's Astronomical Sources and his Los Regule Canonis
• II. Edition & Translation
• Book I
• Book II
• Book III
• Book IV
• A. Glossary
• B. Plates.