Barhebraeus between Ptolemy and Ṭūsī: The Influence of Ṭūsī’s <i>Hay’a</i> Works on Barhebraeus’ <i>Ascent of Mind</i>Historia Scientiarum. Second Series: International Journal of the History of Science Society of JapanSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/YER532QM/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.TaroMimuraBarhebraeus between Ptolemy and Ṭūsī: The Influence of Ṭūsī’s <i>Hay’a</i> Works on Barhebraeus’ <i>Ascent of Mind</i>http://syriaca.org/cbss/YER532QMhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/YER532QMhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/YER532QMHistoria Scientiarum. Second Series: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan33:1202325-44Barhebraeus, one of the most significant figures in the Syriac Renaissance, who was a Syriac Orthodox prelate and polymath, and a younger contemporary of Naṣir al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, wrote a Syriac astronomical work entitled <i>Ascent of Mind</i>. By comparing this work with Ṭūsīʼs hayʼa works, we notice that although Barhebraeus composed it using the structure of <i>hayʼa</i> works, the order of its chapters corresponds more closely to that in <i>Zubdat al-idrāk fī hayʼat al-aflāk</i>, a less popular Arabic hayʼa work of Ṭūsī, and, moreover, Barhebraeus did not make any reference to the Ṭūsī-couple. The reason for this peculiar selection can be found in the fact that Barhebraeus mentioned in the introduction of the <i>Ascent</i> Ptolemyʼs <i>Almagest</i> as “the most comprehensive and admirable” book, suggesting that to make his hayʼa book accord faithfully with the <i>Almagest</i>, he selected the <i>Zubda</i> since it adhered to the Ptolemaic system, and he rejected the Ṭūsī-couple because he was not interested in a concept newly added to the original content of the <i>Almagest</i>. From a detailed analysis of his selective editing of Ṭūsīʼs <i>hayʼa</i> works in the <i>Ascent</i>, I elucidate how different the scholarly stance of Syriac Christians towards Greek scholarship was from that of Islamic scholars.
Mimura, Taro. “Barhebraeus between Ptolemy and Ṭūsī: The Influence of Ṭūsī’s Hay’a Works on Barhebraeus’ Ascent of Mind.” Historia Scientiarum. Second Series: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan 33:1 (2023): 25–44. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.34336/historiascientiarum.33.1_25.
Taro Mimura, Barhebraeus between Ptolemy and Ṭūsī: The Influence of Ṭūsī’s Hay’a Works on Barhebraeus’ Ascent of Mind,” Historia Scientiarum. Second Series: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan 33:1 (2023): 25–44, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.34336/historiascientiarum.33.1_25.