Astronomy and astrology in the works of abraham ibn ezra

Arabic Sciences and Philosophy

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 9-21

  Goldstein, Bernard R ^a  

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EID: 85008542984     PISSN: 09574239     EISSN: 14740524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0957423900002101     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. See, for example, U. Simon, Four Approaches to the Book of Psalms from Saadiah Goon to Abraham ibn Ezra (Albany, 1991), which has a useful bibliography; for biographical details and a discussion of Ibn Ezra's non-conformist attitudes, see A. Grabois, “Le non-conformisme intellectuel au XII” siecle: Pierre Abelard et Abraham ibn Ezra,” in M. Yardeni (ed.), Modernite et non-conformisme en France a travers les ages (Leiden, 1983), pp. 3-13.
2. J. M. Millas Vallicrosa, “El magisterio astronomico de Abraham ibn Ezra en la Europa latina,” in Estudios sobre historia de la ciencia espanola (Barcelona, 1949), pp. 289-347.
3. M. Levey, “Abraham ibn Ezra,” in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. IV (1971), pp. 502-3.
4. See Y. T. Langermann, “Some astrological themes in the thought of Abraham ibn Ezra,” in I. Twersky and J. M. Harris (eds.), Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra: Studies in the Writings of a Twelfth-Century Jewish Polymath (Cambridge, Mass., 1993), pp. 28-85.
5. R. Levy, The Beginning of Wisdom: An Astrological Treatise by Abraham ibn Ezra (Baltimore, 1939), p. 14.
6. R. Levy, The Astrological Works of Abraham ibn Ezra (Baltimore, 1927), pp. 62 ff; L. Thorndike, A History of Magic and Experimental Science (New York, 1923), vol. II, pp. 926-30.
7. Levy, Astrological Works, pp. 51-3.
8. B. R. Goldstein, Ibn al-Muthanna's Commentary on the Astronomical Tables of al-Khwdrizmi (New Haven, 1967); id., “The book on eclipses of Masha'allah,” Physis, 6 (1964): 205-13.
9. For the discovery of a second copy of the anonymous version, see B. R. Goldstein, “The Hebrew astronomical tradition: New sources,” Isis, 72 (1981): 237-51, esp. p. 250.
10. Goldstein, Muth., p. 191.
11. E. S. Kennedy and W. Ukashah, “Al-Khwarizmi's planetary latitude tables,” Centaurus, 14 (1969): 86-96.
12. Goldstein, Muth., pp. 147-8.
13. D. Pingree, “The fragments of the works of Ya'qub ibn Tariq,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 27 (1969): 97-125, esp. p. 98; id., “The fragments of the works of al- Fazari,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 29 (1970): 103-23.
14. Pingree, “al-Fazari,” p. 106. 151 am most grateful to Dr. Langermann for bringing this argument to my attention.
15. Goldstein, Muth., p. 150; cf. J. M. Millas Vallicrosa, El libro de los fundamentos de las Tobias astronomicas de R. Abraham ibn Ezra (Madrid/Barcelona, 1947), p. 76, where a similar list, with the notable addition of Ibn Yunus (d. 1009), is to be found; E. S. Kennedy, A Survey of Islamic Astronomical Tables, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 46.2 (Philadelphia, 1956).
16. Goldstein, Muth., p. 149.
17. This text has been analyzed in F. S. Pedersen, “Alkhwarizmi's astronomical rules: Yet another Latin version,” Cahiers de l'Institut du moyen-âge grec et latin, Université de Copenhague, 62 (1992): 31-75.
18. Goldstein, “Mashà'allàh,” p. 211.
19. This text has been analyzed in F. S. Pedersen., p. 209.
20. This text has been analyzed in F. S. Pedersen., p. 206; cf. D. Pingree, “The Indian and Pseudo-Indian passages in Greek and Latin astronomical and astrological texts,” Viator, 7 (1976): 141-95, esp. p. 150.
21. Millas, Tobias, p. 19; J. D. North, Richard ofWallingford, 3 vols. (Oxford, 1976), vol. II, p. 266.
22. Millas, Tobias, p. 130.
23. Goldstein, Muth., p. 176.
24. Millas, Tobias, p. 119; for details, see F. S. Benjamin, Jr., and G. J. Toomer, Campanus ofNovara and Medieval Planetary Theory (Madison, 1971), p. 375.
25. J. Hogendijk, “Al-Khwarizmfs table of the ‘sine of the hours’ and the underlying sine table,” Historia Scientiarum, 42 (1991): 1-12.
26. Goldstein, Muth., p. 82, cf. pp. 207 f; Millas, Tobias, pp. 157 f: Hogendijk, “Sine table,” does not refer to this latter passage.
27. See O. Neugebauer, The Astronomical Tables of al-Khwarizmi (Copenhagen, 1962), p. 57.
28. Goldstein, Muth., pp. 104 ff, cf. pp. 229 f; Millas, Tobias, p. 166; Pingree, “Indian and Pseudo-Indian passages,” p. 164.
29. Pingree, “Indian and Pseudo-Indian passages,” p. 165.
30. G. J. Toomer, “The solar theory of az-Zarqal: A history of errors,” Centaurus, 14 (1969): 306-36.
31. Millas, Tablets, pp. 79-83; cited in Toomer, “Solar theory,” pp. 317 ff.
32. B. R. Goldstein, The Astronomical Tables of Levi ben Gerson (New Haven, 1974), p. 81.
33. J. D. North, Horoscopes and History (London, 1986), p. 25.
34. B. R. Goldstein and D. Pingree, Levi ben Gerson's Prognostication for the Conjunction of 1345, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 80.6 (Philadelphia, 1990), p. 6.
35. Goldstein and Pingree, Prognostication, p. 46.
36. “Al-Khwarizmfs table of the ‘sine of the hours’ and the underlying sine table,”.; cf. Levy, The Beginning of Wisdom, Heb. text, p. xli.
37. G. Freudenthal, “Sur la partie astronomique du Liwyat Hen de Levi ben Abraham ben Hayyim,” Revue des études juives, 98 (1989): 103-12; Goldstein and Pingree, Prognostication, p. 3.
38. Goldstein and Pingree, Prognostication, p. 32.
39. “Sur la partie astronomique du Liwyat Hen de Levi ben Abraham ben Hayyim,”., pp. 35-9.
40. “Sur la partie astronomique du Liwyat Hen de Levi ben Abraham ben Hayyim,”., p. 37.
41. J.-P. Boudet, “Simon de Phares et les rapports entre astrologie et prophetie a la fin du moyen age,” Melanges de I'Ecole Frangaise de Rome, 102 (1990): 617-48.
42. Goldstein, Muth., Hebrew section, pp. 126 ff; cf. Millas, Tobias, pp. 130 ff, where the term algeib is used for sine in the Latin version of Ibn Ezra's text.
43. Sarfatti, Mathematical Terminology, pp. 77, 136; Goldstein, Muth., Hebrew section, pp. 136-137.
44. B. R. Goldstein, “Star lists in Hebrew,” Centaurus, 28 (1985): 185-208, esp. pp. 196-7.
45. Goldstein, “Star lists,” p. 188; for additional star lists in Hebrew, see K. Fischer, P. Kunitzsch, and Y. T. Langermann, “The Hebrew astronomical Codex MS. Sassoon 823,” Jewish Quarterly Review, 78 (1988): 253-92; and B. R. Goldstein and J. Chabas, “Ibn al-Kammad's star list,” Centaurus (in press).
46. Goldstein, “Star lists,” p. 197.
47. B. R. Goldstein, “The Hebrew astrolabe in the Adler Planetarium,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 35 (1976): 251-60; B. R. Goldstein and G. Saliba, “A Hispano- Arabic astrolabe with Hebrew star names,” Annali dell'Istituto e Museo di Storia delta Scienza di Firenze, 8 (1983): 19-29; F. Maddison, “Description of a unique Judaeo-Arabic astrolabe,” in Christie's Sale Catalogue: “Important Judaica 15 December 1988” (Amsterdam, 1988), pp. 88-95.