The Stars in the Sky and on the Globe: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar al-Ṣūfī’s Visualization of the Heavens

By Sonja Brentjes

In this paper, I analyze about 50 manuscript copies of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar al-Ṣūfī’s Book of the Images of the Stars (Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib althābita). I investigate how the constellations were visualized in those copies, what their changes…

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In this paper, I analyze about 50 manuscript copies of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar al-Ṣūfī’s Book of the Images of the Stars (Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib althābita). I investigate how the constellations were visualized in those copies, what their changes tell us about the contexts in which Ṣūfī’s book was used, and which iconographic model dominated the transmission. Published Online (2022-07-31)Copyright © 2022 by Sonja Brentjes Article PDF Link: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/aestimatio/article/view/39088/29777 Corresponding Author: Sonja Brentjes,Max Planck Institute for the History of ScienceE-Mail: brentjes@mpiwgberlin.mpg.de

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Original publication: Brentjes, Sonja. "The Stars in the Sky and on the Globe: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar al-Ṣūfī’s Visualization of the Heavens." Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science 2 (2): 2022. 59-98. DOI: 10.33137/aestimatio.v2i2.39088. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science. Copyright © the author(s). Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.

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