| This thesis will look at the astronomy surrounding The Book of the Constellations of the Fixed Stars, by the Arabic-writing astronomer al-S&dotbelow;ufi. The origins of the fixed-star astronomy included in al-S&dotbelow;ufi's book, both Greek and Arabic, will be analyzed and compared. al-S&dotbelow;ufi's own use of those astronomies, especially in the ways that he criticized, corrected, and universalized them, paved the way for a new and more widely-applicable astronomy. In addition to providing the most important source on fixed-star astronomy in Arabic, the information from al-S&dotbelow;ufi's book transferred to the later astronomies of Europe and East Africa. |
