Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Aleph; Historical Studies in Science & Judaism
Angaben zur Quelle:
20,1-2 (2020) 7-101
Keywords:
Taitaẓak, Joseph,
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Astrolabes Early works to 1800
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Jewish scientists
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Jewish astronomy History To 1500
Abstract:
This article presents the Hebrew edition and English translation of a treatise on the construction of an astrolabe composed by Joseph ben Solomon Ṭaiṭaṣaq in the last quarter of the fifteenth century, extant in a single manuscript never previously studied. This article ties the astrolabe described by Ṭaiṭaṣaq to a specific tradition of astrolabe construction, which is reflected in two components of the rete and is also witnessed in the Middle Ages in a single Latin/Catalan astrolabe preserved at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Ṭaiṭaṣaq's instrument and the Catalan astrolabe share two remarkable and unique characteristics which may suggest a common literary source for their construction, a common astrolabe workshop, or a common craftsman tradition.
DOI:
10.2979/aleph.20.1-2.0007
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