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Program

Research Programs: Editions

Period of Performance

6/1/1987 - 9/30/1989

Funding Totals

$52,300.00 (approved)
$52,098.00 (awarded)

The Planetary Theories of Ibn al-Shatir of Damascus (d.1375): A Pre-Copernican Copernicus

FAIN: RE-20655-87

Columbia University (New York, NY 10027-7922)
George A. Saliba (Project Director: June 1986 to May 1990)

To support preparation of a critical edition of the astronomical treatise of Ibn al-Shatir of Damascus (d.1375), one of the foremost Islamic astronomers of the Middle Ages.