The Lighthouse And The Observatory
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Author | : Daniel A. Stolz |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2018-01-11 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1108169260 |
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An observatory and a lighthouse form the nexus of this major new investigation of science, religion, and the state in late Ottoman Egypt. Astronomy, imperial bureaucrats, traditionally educated Muslim scholars, and reformist Islamic publications, such as The Lighthouse, are linked to examine the making of knowledge, the performance of piety, and the operation of political power through scientific practice. Contrary to ideas of Islamic scientific decline, Muslim scholars in the nineteenth century used a dynamic tradition of knowledge to measure time, compute calendars, and predict planetary positions. The rise of a 'new astronomy' is revealed to owe much to projects of political and religious reform: from the strengthening of the multiple empires that exercised power over the Nile Valley; to the 'modernization' of Islamic centers of learning; to the dream of a global Islamic community that would rely on scientific institutions to coordinate the timing of major religious duties.
Author | : Daniel A. Stolz |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2018-01-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107196337 |
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This history of astronomy in Egypt reveals how modern science came to play an authoritative role in Islamic religious practice.
Author | : Daniel A.. Stolz |
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Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2013 |
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Author | : Jan K. Herman |
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Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1983 |
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Author | : Bessie Z. Jones |
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Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 1965 |
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Author | : Bessie Zaban Jones |
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Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1965 |
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Author | : Geoff Chester |
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Total Pages | : 6 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Astronomical observatories |
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Author | : Bessie Zaban Jones |
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Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 1965 |
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Author | : Stephen T. Lyons |
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Release | : 2020-07-04 |
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ISBN | : 9781938394515 |
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A brief full color photographic history of the lighthouses in Casco Bay and the Portland Observatory, Portland Maine. The book includes:1791: Portland Head Lighthouse1807: Portland Observatory1828: Cape Elizabeth Lighthouse, East & West Towers "Two Lights"1855: Portland Breakwater Lighthouse "Bug Light"1871: Halfway Rock Lighthouse1897: Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse1905: Ram Island Lighthouse
Author | : Kimberly K. Arcand |
Publisher | : Smithsonian Institution |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2019-10-22 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1588346781 |
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A lavish coffee-table book featuring spectacular images from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the most powerful X-Ray telescope ever built Take a journey through the cosmos with Light from the Void, a stunning collection of photographs from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory's two decades of operation. The book showcases rarely-seen celestial phenomena such as black holes, planetary nebulae, galaxy clusters, gravitational waves, stellar birth and death, and more. Accompanying these images of incredible natural phenomena are captions explaining how they occur. The images start close to home and move outward: beginning with images of the Chandra launch, then moving into the solar system, through the nearby universe, and finally to the most distant galaxies Chandra has observed, the book brings readers on a far-out visual voyage.