Results for "medieval astronomy"
History
Medieval Encyclopedia Entry 1774923184
Medieval Encyclopedia Entry 1774923184 is a late-13th-century illuminated manuscript folio from the Dominican “Liber Floridus” compendium, celebrated for its rare full-page miniature of a mechanical astrolabe and marginalia that fuse Arabic star-names with Christian cosmology.
PeopleFigures Encyclopedia Entry 1779697865
Miriam al‑Khalifa (c. 1023 – 1089) was a pre‑modern Andalusian astronomer, mathematician, and instrument maker whose lunar‑eclipse tables and refined astrolabe design advanced medieval Islamic astronomy and left a lasting legacy in both the Islamic world and later European science.