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Softcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. 367 pages, very good condition, provenance: Dr. Richard Lorch, two sheets of notes/calculations handwritten/handdrawn by Lorch (regarding his sine quadrant paper) laid in. - - Contents: Presentation. - List of Contributors. - J.L. Berggren & Glen van Brummelen: Abu Sahl al-Kuhi's "On the Ration of the Segments of Single Line that Falls on Three Lines". - - A. Djebbar: Figurate Numbers in the Mathematical Tradition of al-Andalus and the Maghrib. - - Roser Puig: The Theoery of the Moon in the Al-Zij al-Kamil fi-l-Ta'alim of Ibn-al-Ha'im (ca. 1205). - - David Pingree: Sanskrit Translations of Arabic and Persian Astronomical Texts at the Court of Jayasimha of Jayapura. - - M. Forcada: Astrology and Folk Astronomy: the Mukhtasar min al-Anwa of Ahmad b. Faris. - - D.A. King: Too Many Cooks: A New Account of the Earliest Muslim Geodetic Measurements. - - Paul Kunitzsch: The Chapter on the Stars in an Early European Treatise on the Use of the Astrolabe (ca. AD 1000). - - Richard Lorch: Some Early Applications of the Sine Quadrant. - - M. Viladrich: Medieval Islamic Horary Quadrants for Specific Latitudes and their Influence on the European Tradtion. - - Review: The Jews and the Sciences in the Middle Ages. - - Review: Between Demonstration and Imagination. Essays in the History of Science and Philosophy presented to John D. North. - - Review: World-Maps for Finding the Direction and Distance to Mecca. Innovation and Tradition in Islamic Science. - - Review: Die Schrift des Ibrahin b. Sinan b. Thabit über die Schatteninstrumente.