Scanning the Skies: A Virtual Exhibit of Astronomy Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania
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The Scholarly Tradition

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Illustrations to the Theoricae novae planetarum

1525-1575
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Calendarium and Ephemerides

1500
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Sharḥ al-mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah

End of Ramadan 830 AH (25 July 1427 AD)
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Alfonsine Tables

1401-4
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Theorica planetarum, Tractatus de sphaera, and other texts

1481
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Tractatus de sphaera, Ruaḥ Ḥen

Circa 1425-1450
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Tractatus de sphaera, Algorismus, Computus lunaris

Circa 1256-1270
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Algorismus, Tractatus de sphaera

Circa 1225-1275
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De philosophia mundi, Expositio Hugonis de Evangeliis

Circa 1150
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Almagest

783 AH (1381 AD)
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Astronomical Anthology (Almagest, etc.)

Circa 1361
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Tahrir al-Majisti

13 Dhu’l Qa‘da 813 AH (9 March 1411 AD)

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