Arabic in the Sciences
On Astronomy
كتاب في الهيئة
Al-Bitruji's astronomy, translated by Michael Scot at Toledo in 1217, was read by Europe's philosophers as an Aristotelian alternative to Ptolemy, though astronomers did not adopt it.
- Author
- Nur al-Din al-Bitruji (Alpetragius) (d. c. 1204)
- Field
- Astronomy
- Arabic title
- كتابٌ في الهيئة
- Latin title
- De motibus celorum (Alpetragius)
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