Medieval Islamic Astronomy And Its Influence On Renaissance Europe

On Friday 13th of April, 2018, I gave a presentation at the KW RASC on Medieval Islamic Astronomy and its influence on Renaissance Europe.

Topics include

• Arab pre-Islamic Folk Astronomy, including Asterisms, and 'Anwaa'
• Origins of Islamic Science, including astronomy.
• Instruments used by Islamic astronomers, and how they improved them, including the astrolabe, quadrant, and others.
• Observatories, and how they played a role in better observations.
• Prominent Islamic Astronomers, and new things they discovered.
• Doubts On Ptolmey's geocentric model.
• The Copernican Connection.
• How Arab measurement of the earth's circumference influenced Columbus discovery of the New World.
• Sidereal clock still used today for timing of irrigation!
• Arabic terms used today in math and astronomy.
• The Decline, and why it happened.

Here is the presentation slides, and audio recording:

• The presentation slides, in PDF format (33 MB)
• The audio recording in MP3 zipped format (~ 73MB) of the talk.

Hope you find it informative ...