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 Golden Age of Islamic Astronomy?
The period from the thirteenth to the middle of the fourteenth century is rightfully described as the ''golden Age of Islamic Astronomy'' do you agree or disagree ? give opinion and arguments ......
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07-24-2008, 08:34 PM
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In so far as "Islamic Astronomy" has a Golden Age, then yeah. They named and described a lot of stars. We still use some of those names today - Algol, for example, is a corruption of the Arabic for "The Ghoul". It was useful for modern astronomy in the same way that the work of the medieval alchemists was useful for modern chemistry. A lot of necessary grunt work in observation, but very little in terms of useful theory.
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