Paul Kunitzsch's collected studies trace Arabic star names and astronomical terminology directly through the medieval Arabic textual record and its later transmission into medieval Latin Europe, documenting specific, checkable paths by which individual star names moved between languages and cultures. That traceable transmission history is the collection's real evidentiary basis. This record has not independently traced a documented history of scholarly disagreement with Kunitzsch's specific transmission claims. Use it for the history of Arabic star names and the documented westward transmission of Arabic astral science.
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AuthorPaul Kunitzsch
PublisherVariorum Reprints
Publication Year1989
URLhttps://www.routledge.com/The-Arabs-and-the-Stars-Texts-and-Traditions-on-the-Fixed-Stars-and-Their-Influence-in-Medieval-Europe/Kunitzsch/p/book/9780860782551
Source Typeacademic monograph
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A collection of Paul Kunitzsch's scholarly studies tracing Arabic star names through the medieval Arabic textual record and their transmission into medieval Latin Europe. NotesA collection of Paul Kunitzsch's scholarly studies on Arabic astronomy and star nomenclature, and their transmission into medieval Latin Europe. Use for established facts about Arabic star names and the history of astral science and its transmission westward.
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This source names Europe directly: "later transmission into medieval Latin Europe, documenting specific, checkable paths by which individual star names moved between languages and cultures."
Source The Arabs and the StarsPaul Kunitzsch
Claims Backed By This Source (626 claims)
This source backs 626 claims across the atlas. As facts: 480 well-attested. As cited relationships: 66 holds. Plus 80 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Lunar Mansions, 257 claims: 200 well-attested, 29 holds, 28 general references.
- Fixed Stars, 213 claims: 151 well-attested, 30 holds, 32 general references.
- Articles, 83 claims: 83 well-attested.
- Constellations, 48 claims: 26 well-attested, 6 holds, 16 general references.
- Categories, 15 claims: 12 well-attested, 3 general references.
- Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Cultures, 1 claims: 1 general references.
Well-attested
480Articles
The Degrees of al Dhira, and Where They Came FromThe Degrees of al Fargh al Mukdim, and Where They Came FromThe Degrees of al Fargh al Thani, and Where They Came FromThe Degrees of al Ghafr, and Where They Came FromThe Degrees of al Hana, and Where They Came FromThe Degrees of al Haqa, and Where They Came FromThe Degrees of al Iklil, and Where They Came FromThe Degrees of al Jabhah, and Where They Came FromThe Degrees of al Naaim, and Where They Came FromThe Degrees of al Nathrah, and Where They Came FromThe Degrees of al Qalb, and Where They Came FromThe Degrees of al Sarfah, and Where They Came FromThe Degrees of al Sharatain, and Where They Came FromThe Degrees of al Shaulah, and Where They Came FromThe Degrees of al Simak, and Where They Came FromThe Degrees of al Tarf, and Where They Came FromThe Degrees of al Thurayya, and Where They Came FromThe Degrees of al Zubana, and Where They Came FromThe Degrees of al Zubrah, and Where They Came FromThe Degrees of Batn al Hut, and Where They Came FromThe Degrees of Sa'd al Akhbiyah, and Where They Came FromThe Degrees of Sa'd al Dhabih, and Where They Came FromThe Degrees of Sa'd al Suud, and Where They Came FromThe Degrees of Sa'd Bula, and Where They Came FromThe Demon Star, MeasuredThe Little Cloud a Thousand Years Before the TelescopeThe Luckiest of the LuckyThe Star, with No Other Name NeededThe Two Stars That Guarded the Pole Before Polaris MatteredThe Woman Whose Hand and Foot We Still NameTiming and magicVertex: A Galaxy in the Star Lists, and a Name Shared with a Chart PointWhy the Same Faint Cluster Everywhere Showing 51 to 100 of 163 entities carrying this claim.
Holds
66Showing 1 to 50 of 60 entities carrying this claim.
General References
80Showing 1 to 50 of 80 entities carrying this claim.
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