Stephen of Pisa and Antioch : Liber Mamonis : an introduction to Ptolemaic cosmology and astronomy from the early Crusader states / Dirk Grupe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grupe, Dirk, author, translator.

Contributor:

Lemay, Richard Joseph, editor.

Médiathèque d'agglomération de Cambrai.

Series:

Sources and studies in the history of mathematics and physical sciences

Sources and studies in the history of mathematics and physical sciences, 2196-8810

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Astronomy, Arab.

Astronomy, Medieval.

Cosmology, Medieval.

Cosmology, Ancient.

Stephanus, Antiochenus, active 1127. Liber Mamonis.

Stephanus.

Alhazen, 965-1039. Maqālah fī hayʼat al-ʻālam.

Alhazen.

Médiathèque d'agglomération de Cambrai--Manuscript--A 930.

Médiathèque d'agglomération de Cambrai.

Physical Description:

xi, 439 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2019]

Language Note:

Text of Liber Mamonis in Latin, with English translation on facing pages; introductory chapters in English.

Summary:

"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'Agglomération, A 930. It is split into two parts: the first provides an extensive introduction to Stephen and his work, while the second features the edition and translation. A comprehensive glossary and collection of photographs of plates are also included."

Contents:

Introduction

Studies in Arabic Astronomy in the Early Crusader States

The Crusader States and the Translation Activities of the Twelfth Century

The Astronomical Works from Antioch

Regule canonis and Liber Mamonis

The Latin Translation of Ptolemy's Almagest

General Observations

The Liber Mamonis, its Author and His Main Source

The Cosmological Tract in MS Cambrai 930

The Manuscript

The Liber Mamonis in Modern Studies

'Stephen the Philosopher' and His Work

The Arabic Cosmography On the Configuration of the World

The Work

Copies and Translations of On the Configuration

Stephen's Version of On the Configuration

Translation and Commentary

Language

Technical Terminology

Style

Technical Quality

On the Configuration, Passages 146-48

On the Configuration, Passages 178-79

Ibn al-Haytham's Diagrams

The Content and Purpose of Stephen's Commentary

The Aim The Criticism of Macrobius

Combining Cosmology with Astronomy

New Planetary Models

The Oscillating Deferents of Mercury and Venus

Nested Epicyclic Spheres

The Implications of Stephen's Planetary Models

Non-Astronomical Teaching

Aristotelianism

The Flooding of the Nile

A New Theory of the Sun's Heat

Historical Considerations

Added Diagrams

Stephen's Astronomical Sources and his Lost Regule Canonis

Astronomical Traditions in the Liber Mamonis

Ptolemy's Almagest

Al-Battānī's Ṣabiʼ Zīj

Astronomical Parameters in the Liber Mamonis

The Mumtaḥan Tradition

Situational Influences

Independent Calculations

Edition and Translation

Book I

'Preface to Book I'

'The Whole World'

'The Heaven'

'The Ecliptic'

Book II

'Preface to Book II'

'The Inclination'

'Longitudes and Latitudes'

'The Altitude'

'The Ascendant and the Ascensions

Book III

'Preface to Book III'

'The Sphere of the Sun'

'The Sphere of the Moon'

Book IV

'Preface to Book IV'

'The Sphere of Mercury'

'The Sphere of Venus'

'The Spheres of the Superior Stars'

'The Rectification, the Retrogradation, and the Latitudes of the Planets'

'The Sphere of the Fixed Stars'

Glossary

Plates

References

Index.

Notes:

Based on the first of the two parts of the author's dissertation (doctoral)--University of London, 2013, which was submitted under the title: The Latin reception of Arabic astronomy and cosmology in the mid-twelfth-century Antioch. The Liber Mamonis and the Dresden Almagest--Cited from page v.

With his Liber Mamonis, Stephen of Pisa (and Antioch) produced the first translation, partly revised and richly commented, of the Arabic cosmography On the Configuration of the World by Ibn al-Haytham. The present edition of Stephen of Pisa's Liber Mamonis is based on the only known manuscript of the Liber Mamonis, MS Cambrai, Médiathèque d'agglomération, A 930. When preparing the edition, the author was able to make use of an unpublished edition of the Cambrai manuscript by Professor Richard Lemay. Many of the emendations and comments suggested by Lemay have been included in the present book (indicated in the edition by an attached (L)). Some changes to Lemay's transcription have been made, mostly in the technical parts of the work--Cited from page v.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-431) and index.

Contains:

Container of: Stephanus, Antiochenus, active 1127. Liber Mamonis. Latin. (Grupe and Lemay)

Container of: Stephanus, Antiochenus, active 1127. Liber Mamonis. English. (Grupe)

Other Format:

Online version: Grupe, Dirk. Stephen of Pisa and Antioch.

ISBN:

9783030192334

3030192334

OCLC:

1129258244

Publisher Number:

9783030192334