The Stars of Indian Ocean Arab Navigation
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posted on 2021-06-13, 20:26 authored by Juan AcevedoJuan Acevedo, Inês BénardInês BénardA reference identification and nomenclature handbook of the stars, asterisms and celestial objects used in early modern Arabic-language nautical literature. Drawn from the works of Ahmad ibn Majid and Sulayman al-Mahri.
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Making the Earth Global: Early Modern Nautical Rutters and the Construction of a Global Concept of the Earth
European Research Council
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navigation techniquesnavigationArabic languageIndian Oceanearly modern scienceuranographynautical astronomyastronavigationStellar AstronomyHistory and Philosophy of Science (incl. Non-historical Philosophy of Science)Islamic StudiesMiddle Eastern and African HistoryMiddle Eastern LanguagesNavigation and Position FixingHistory of IdeasGlobalisation and Culture
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