caa a22 4500 606224041 CHVBK 20210128101141.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00407-015-0153-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00407-015-0153-0 Solar and lunar observations at Istanbul in the 1570s [Elektronische Daten] [S. Mozaffari, John Steele] From the early ninth century until about eight centuries later, the Middle East witnessed a series of both simple and systematic astronomical observations for the purpose of testing contemporary astronomical tables and deriving the fundamental solar, lunar, and planetary parameters. Of them, the extensive observations of lunar eclipses available before 1000 AD for testing the ephemeredes computed from the astronomical tables are in a relatively sharp contrast to the twelve lunar observations that are pertained to the four extant accounts of the measurements of the basic parameters of Ptolemaic lunar model. The last of them are Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Ma‘rūf's (1526-1585) trio of lunar eclipses observed from Istanbul, Cairo, and Thessalonica in 1576-1577 and documented in chapter 2 of book 5 of his famous work, Sidrat muntaha al-afkar fī malakūt al-falak al-dawwār (The Lotus Tree in the Seventh Heaven of Reflection). In this article, we provide a detailed analysis of the accuracy of his solar (1577-1579) and lunar observations. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2015 Mozaffari S. Research Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics of Maragha, Maragha, Iran aut Steele John Department of Egyptology and Assyriology, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA aut Archive for History of Exact Sciences Springer Berlin Heidelberg 69/4(2015-07-01), 343-362 0003-9519 69:4<343 2015 69 407 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-015-0153-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-015-0153-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mozaffari S. Research Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics of Maragha, Maragha, Iran aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Steele John Department of Egyptology and Assyriology, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Archive for History of Exact Sciences Springer Berlin Heidelberg 69/4(2015-07-01), 343-362 0003-9519 69:4<343 2015 69 407