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A Survey of Islamic Astronomical Tables
- J. Vernet, E. S. Kennedy
- Physics
- 31 December 1957
Late Medieval Planetary Theory
- E. S. Kennedy
- PhysicsIsis
- 1 October 1966
THIS PAPER IS an attempt to describe and discuss models for representing planetary motion developed in the thirteenth century or shortly thereafter. A series of four articles which have appeared in…
Al-Kāshī's Treatise on Astronomical Observational Instruments
- E. S. Kennedy
- PhysicsJournal of Near Eastern Studies
- 1 April 1961
T His paper is a minor contribution to the slowly accumulating corpus of materials on medieval observatory equipment. It presents the Persian text, translation, and commentary to a short treatise…
Comets in Islamic Astronomy and Astrology
- E. S. Kennedy
- PhysicsJournal of Near Eastern Studies
- 1 January 1957
HIS paper is a collection and analysis of all references in medieval Arabic sources to "tailed stars" (Arabic kawdkib mudhanniba, kawdkib dhawdt aladhnab) presently available to the author. His…
The Spherical Case of the Tūsī Couple
- G. Saliba, E. S. Kennedy
- MathematicsArabic Sciences and Philosophy
- 1 September 1991
In this article we study the development of the mathematical theorem, now known as the Tūsī Couple, and discuss the difference between its plane and spherical applications. Dans cet article, nous…
Two Persian Astronomical Treatises by Nasīr al‐Dīn al Tūsī
- E. S. Kennedy
- Physics
- 1 July 1984
The Planetary Theory of Ibn al-Shāṭir
- E. S. Kennedy, Victor Roberts
- PhysicsIsis
- 1 September 1959
A recent paper' has discussed the solar and lunar kinematic models described by the fourteenth-century Damascene astronomer known as Ibn al-Sht the planet is at the terminal point of the last. Thus…
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