This volume focuses on the development of astronomy in al-Andalus, Islamic Spain, relating it to the astronomical science of the Latin West. Both Islamic and European science survived the Latin astronomical tradition after the Arab conquest of 711 and then the influence of Arabic science in Christian Spain. These articles underline some of the features of the astronomy of al-Andalus, compared with that of eastern Islam, notably in areas such as trepidation, solar theory and homocentricity. Seven of these studies are in Spanish; 13 are in English.
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Andalusian astronomy - its main characteristics and influence in the Latin West. Part 1 The survival of the Latin astronomy and astrology in al-Andalus: astrology, pre-Islamic Spain and the conquest of al-Andalus; la primitiva version arabe del Libro de las Cruces; the early development of astrology in al-Andalus. Part 2 Eastern influence in Andalusian astronomy: sobre los materiales astronomicos en el "Calendario de Cordoba" y en su version latina del siglo XIII; Ibn Ishaq al-Tunisi and Ibn Muadh al-Jayyani on the Qibla; notas sobre la triogonometria esferica de Ibn Muad. Part 3 Mathematical astronomy and astronomical theory: trepidation in al-Andalus in the 11th century; sobre el modelo de Azarquiel para determinar la obicuidad de la eclipta; Ibn al-Banna, Ibn Ishaq and Ibn al-Zarqalluh's solar theory; a homocentric solar model by Abu Jafar al-Khazin; on al-Bitruji and the "Hay'a" tradition in al-Andalus. Part 4 Alfonso X and Arabic astronomy: Alfonso X and Arabic astronomy; Maslama al-Majriti and the Alphonsine book on the construction of the Astrolabe; sobre el trazado de la azafea y de la lamina universal - intervencion de los colaboradores alfonsies; nota sobre el ecuatorio de Ibn al-Samh; Al-Sufi and Alfonso X; el original arabe y la version alfonsi del "Kitab fi hay' at al-alam" de Ibn al-Haytam; on the solar model and the precession of the equinoxes in the Alfonsine Zij and its Arabic sources; an hypothesis on the epoch of Ptolemy's star catalogue according to the authors of the Alfonsine tables.
