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  • NUMERALS AND ARITHMETIC IN THE MIDDLE AGES
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    NUMERALS AND ARITHMETIC IN THE MIDDLE AGES
    CHARLES BURNETT
    This volume, the third by Charles Burnett in the Variorum series, brings together articles on the different numeral forms used in the Middle Ages, and their use in mathematical and other contexts. Some pieces study the introduction of Hindu-Arabic numerals into Western Europe, documenting, in more detail than anywhere else, the different forms in which they are found, before th...

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  • ARABIC INTO LATIN IN THE MIDDLE AGES
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    ARABIC INTO LATIN IN THE MIDDLE AGES
    CHARLES BURNETT
    This collection of Charles Burnett's articles on the transmission of Arabic learning to Europe concentrates on the identity of the Latin translators and the context in which they were working. The articles are arranged in roughly chronological order, beginning with the earliest known translations from Arabic at the end of the 10th century, progressing through 11th-century trans...

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  • LA CONNAISSANCE DE L’ISLAM DANS L’OCCIDENT MÉDIÉVAL
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    LA CONNAISSANCE DE L’ISLAM DANS L’OCCIDENT MÉDIÉVAL
    MARIE-THÉRÈSE D’ALVERNY / CHARLES BURNETT
    This volume, the second in the series of Marie-Thérèse d’Alverny’s selected articles to be published by Variorum, gathers the majority of her studies on the understanding of Islam in the West from the early Middle Ages until the mid-13th century; some related works will be included in a further selection. In the 12th century, as she shows, a serious effort was for the first tim...

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  • MAGIC AND DIVINATION IN THE MIDDLE AGES
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    MAGIC AND DIVINATION IN THE MIDDLE AGES
    CHARLES BURNETT
    After discussing the terminology of talismanic magic (or necromancy) and its position in divisions of science in the Middle Ages, this book traces the history of talismanic texts from the Classical period through the Arabic world to the Latin Middle Ages. The principal authorities are Hermes and Aristotle, and the search for the ’secret knowledge’ of these ancient sages is show...

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  • SCIENTIFIC WEATHER FORECASTING IN THE MIDDLE AGES
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    SCIENTIFIC WEATHER FORECASTING IN THE MIDDLE AGES
    GERRIT BOS / CHARLES BURNETT
    First Published in 1999. Man has always tried to find effective ways to predict the weather. Simple predictions from meteorological phenomena or from the constellations rising in the sky can be found attributed to Aristotle, and in Varro, Pliny, Ptolemy, and the parapêgmata of Classical times. However, the particular cultural situation of Baghdad in the mid-ninth century encour...

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