Muslims Influence Of Astronomy

Astronomy was not, however, simply a divine paradise in the heavens above, but astronomical observations had also an impact on local people. Observations helped to predict the seasons and agricultural cycles, telling people when to plant their crops and when to pull the crops out. Rus ability to accurately align agricultural patterns with seasonal shifts surely helped advance the Mayan civilization. The accomplishments of these early astronomers see, incredible, but what they lacked in sophisticated technology and accurate instruments, they made up patient observing over long periods of time. Th immense amount of effort that Mayan astronomers put in order to have accurate measurements do not seem to be applied towards an effort to understand

For centuries in the Muslim land the harsh and dry conditions made it hard to collect store and transport water. Most of the progress made in technology and engineering. As said in the quote "Muslim engineers also perfected the waterwheel and built underground water channels some fifty feet underground. The underground channels had manholes (openings from the street) so that they could be cleaned and repaired."(document 7) They created these inventions to help keep water and keep it clean so that they would be able to survive and thrive in where they were staying. As for astronomy most of their work was based off Hellenistic and Indian writing. This could show they were in a golden age because they took the time and effort to figure out what would work and what wouldn’t work and try and fix it. Under one of the early caliphates most Muslim scholars started learning from these writings. As said in this quote "The astrolabe, pictured, allowed people to find their precise latitude by using the position of the stars. The astrolabe was later modified to be used on ships. This innovation allowed Europeans to begin exploring the seas more safely. This lead to the Europeans finding faster trade routes to Asia by sea and Christopher Columbus’s “discovery” of the New World."(Document 6) It talks about the creation and perfection of the astrolabe and how it helped people find their exact latitude using the positions of the stars. This didn’t just help throughout the Muslim time but helped other generations of people after. It helped the Europeans find trade routes faster and help Christopher Columbus “discover” the new world. Not only that but it helped people navigate through the seas more

The astronomy that the Aztecs and the Maya developed was phenomenal. They were both great at predicting eclipses, as well as being the civilizations with the most accurate synodic periods of the Moon, Earth, Venus, and Mars at that time period. Clearly these people knew what they were doing and what they were looking at. Astronomy was such and important piece to their culture that you can see in both of the

Astronomy was extremely important to the people of Mayan culture and it was also a big part of their day to day lives. Priests of the Mayan culture would spend nights upon nights studying the stars for hundreds of years. According to Christopher Minster in the article “Ancient Mayan Astronomy”, “..They believed that the will and actions of the Gods could be read in the stars, moon and planets, they dedicated much time to doing so and many of their most important buildings were constructed with astronomy in mind.” What this quote is saying, is that the

The purpose of this investigation is to identify how religion and astronomy intertwines. The term "cosmos" means "ordered world." For most of recorded history, humans have believed that God, or a group of Gods, created the ordered universe out of chaos. This belief is still shared by a majority of people around the world today, but aspects of that faith have changed as our scientific knowledge of the cosmos has grown. This paper investigates religions that have include astronomy and astrology within itself such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Mesopotamian. The paper also address the scientific belief that religion is not necessary due to advancements of technology and knowledge. The scope of this investigation begins by providing the definition

Http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_QI88fy2Rmgg5bsVaB8Heg. "Ancient Maya - Tools of Astronomy." YouTube. YouTube, 29 June 2014. Web. 29 Mar. 2016. There are many videos on YouTube for Maya Astronomy, but this video was the most suitable for me. In this video, the narrator explains why we have such a fascination in the Astronomy subject. He has many interviewers explain how the Mayans used astronomy as their religion.

cience in the medieval Islamic world (also known, less accurately, as Islamic science or Arabic science) was the science developed and practiced in the medieval Islamic world during the Islamic Golden Age (8th century CE – c. 1258 CE, sometimes considered to have extended to the 15th or 16th century). During this time scholars translated Indian, Assyrian, Iranian and Greek knowledge into Arabic. These translations became a wellspring for scientific advances by scientists from Muslim-ruled areas during the Middle Ages.[1]

Not much information is known about Ptolemy. The information that is known has been inferred from his writings, and based on that he was probably not a Christian. We do know he was an advocate of astrology. He wrote a book about the topic and its benefits. He said that astrology was not to be completely relied upon but was useful to know and should be considered a legitimate science. One source said that he was “by far the most influential source of medieval Islamic astrology.” In his book, the Almagest, after the table of contents he had written a poem that says, “Well do I know that I am mortal, a creature of one day. But if my mind follows the wandering path of stars, then my feet no longer rest on earth, but standing by Zeus himself,

The Astrolabe object helped Islamics find time for prayers and was used in the islamic golden age. Eventually it helped the European’s Navigation because it was able to find the latitude on land and it can help locate the sun, moon and stars. Asia’s innovations in ship design influenced Europe's ship. The had larger ships and more efficient ships to travel on.

Through time and tide, most ancient civilizations have recorded and observed the stars above. Since the different cycles and phenomena of the sun, moon, and planets mostly follow patterns that are predictable, it should come natural to use these cycles as a way to tell time. From calendars to seasons and farming, they have been crucial to predicting what may come next in way of weather and when to harvest or plant crops. A good amount of civilizations also used Astronomy to determine where to place and how to design funerary and religious buildings, as well as come domiciles. The stars were mystical wonders, they represented the gods and other mythological creatures that filled the beliefs and imagination of astronomers across the globe.

Muslims are great inventors and innovators! The world wouldn’t be as wonderful today if this inventions and innovations had not been created. It would not be the same because they invented a lot of thing that people still use today. The three most important and influential Muslims innovations that change the world mathematics, astronomy, geography.

Many things are claimed in the video. Some of those things include the importance of Algebra, Algorithm, and Alkali. Between the 12th and 17th centuries, many European scientists referred to Islamic texts for their work. One mathematician of Islam was Al Khwarizmi. He invented Algebra and many other things that we take for granted in our lives. This eventually lead to Nicolaus Copernicus, who made the claim that the Earth and planets orbit around the sun. Copernicus’ revelations, which were based on Islamic ideas, helped with the jumps of scientific discoveries in Europe, one of them being gravity. Unfortunately, most of the books that were Arabic and had many ideas and theories about our world and science were destroyed in the Reconquest.

Went into great detail but without the understanding of the basic needs for life and Newton’s law of gravitation.

Europe and Mughal India both developed a massive intellect. They both shared the use of the numerical system and of astronomical concepts. The numerical system was created by the Indians around AD 500 and has been developed on through trade and conquests. Astronomy is the study of celestial objects. This study has

Though astrology is considered a field that lacks rationality astronomy is considered a discipline in science that is rather well established (Abu 2014). This was not true in the ancient times as the two were highly intertwined. Hence the need for scholars who would distinguish between the two, one such scholar whose work this research expects alludes to is from Al-Biruni.