Charles Burnett
Biographic Data
| ID | 3662640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles Burnett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | Burnett |
| SIGNATURE | BURNETT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wartburg College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Magic and Divination in the Middle Ages
Numerals and Arithmetic in the Middle Ages
Indian Numerals in the Mediterranean Basin in the Twelfth Century, with Special Reference to the "Eastern Forms"
The Arabic numerals which are now used universally are of ultimately Indian origin and were called “Indian” by Arabic, Greek and Latin scholars of the Middle Ages. The time, place and context of their introduction and development in all three language cultures are still obscure. This article seeks to illuminate, in particular, the use of one kind of Indian numeral (the “Eastern forms”) which was shared by Arabic, Greek and Latin mathematicians in…
An Apocryphal Letter from the Arabic Philosopher al-Kindi to Theodore, Frederick II's Astrologer, Concerning Gog and Magog, The Enclosed Nations, and the Scourge of the Mongols
Immediately following John of Plano Carpini’s History of the Mongols in MS 512 of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna, and inserted among the letters of the papal legate Albert of Beham in Clm. 2574b of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, is a letter in which an Arabic philosopher is apparently warning a Christian king of the impending Mongol invasion. This letter, which I shall refer to, from its incipit, as Epistola Prudenti…
Arabic into Latin in the Middle Ages
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 translations made in Southern Italy, translators working in Sicily and the …
Helena Avelar de Carvalho (17 September 1964–9 March 2021)
Nova in Lisbon on the topic of Vir
Learning Arabic in Renaissance Europe (1505–1624)
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La geomancia en los manuscritos judeo-árabes de la Gueniza de El Cairo, by Blanca Villuendas Sabaté
Agency and Effect in the Astrology of Abū Maʿshar of Balkh (Albumasar)
The aim of this paper is to show how the ninth-century astrologer, Abū Maʿshar Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad b. ʿUmar al-Balkhī, accounted for generation, corruption and change in the sublunary world. He sides with the philosophers against the astrologers and takes as his principal source the Peripatetic tradition. He shows that it is the movements of the heavenly bodies, rather than their elemental qualities, that are responsible for all elemental changes,…
Liber florum celestis doctrine
Béziers as an Astronomical Center for Jews and Christians in the Mid-Twelfth Century
The third and last of Abraham Ibn Ezra's three Hebrew treatises on the astrolabe was composed in Béziers in 1148. In 1144 or soon after, a Christian scholar, Rudolph of Bruges, composed a Latin work the construction of an astrolabe, referring to an observation he had made in the same city on April 24 of that year. The present article assembles the evidence that Béziers was a place where Jews and Christians were working together to write about and…
The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Europe
The essays in this volume shed light on how, for what purposes and to what extent the Arabic language was taught and studied by European scholars, theologian, merchants, diplomats and prisoners in early modern Europe
Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures
Islam and Tibet – Interactions along the Musk Routes
The first encounters between the Islamic world and Tibet took place in the course of the expansion of the Abbasid Empire in the eighth century. Military and political contacts went along with an increasing interest in the other side. Cultural exchanges and the transmission of knowledge were facilitated by a trading network, with musk constituting one of the main trading goods from the Himalayas, largely through India. From the thirteenth century …
The Sea of Languages
Book Review| May 01 2016 The Sea of Languages: Rethinking the Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History Akbari, Suzanne Conklin and Mallette, Karla, eds., The Sea of Languages: Rethinking the Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013), 328 pp. Charles Burnett Charles Burnett Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (2): 317–318. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754…
Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c. 1050–1614 By Brian A. Catlos
Journal Article Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c. 1050–1614 By Brian A. Catlos Get access Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c. 1050–1614 By Brian A. Catlos (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014), xix + 628 pp. Price HB £65.00. EAN 978–0521889391. Charles Burnett Charles Burnett Warburg Institute, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Islamic Studie…
The Cambridge World History
Volume 5 of the Cambridge World History series uncovers the cross-cultural exchange and conquest, and the accompanying growth of regional and trans-regional states, religions, and economic systems, during the period 500 to 1500 CE. The volume begins by outlining a series of core issues and processes across the world, including human relations with nature, gender and family, social hierarchies, education, and warfare. Further essays examine mariti…
Daniel Stolzenberg. Egyptian Oedipus
Journal Article Daniel Stolzenberg. Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity. Get access Daniel Stolzenberg. Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. xi, 307. $50.00. Charles Burnett Charles Burnett Warburg Institute [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Vol…
East (and South) Asian Traditions in Astrology and Divination as Viewed from the West
The articles in this book offer a fascinating panorama of the status and practice of astrology and divination in several Asian societies, including Mongolia, Tibet, India, Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, Japan and Cambodia. In most of these cultures there is an interplay between native traditions and imported Indian or Chinese traditions. In some periods and in some places, astrology is part of the curriculum of universities, or the remit of an official …
Conference
"Conference: ‘Translating the Qur'an’. Warburg Institute, University of London, 16 March 2012." , 14(2), pp. 127–128
The Arabic Hermes
Hebrew and Latin astrology in the twelfth century
Arabic into Latin in the Middle Ages
Contents: Preface King Ptolemy and Alchandreus the philosopher: the earliest texts on the astrolabe and Arabic astrology at Fleury, Micy and Chartres Physics before the Physics: early translations from Arabic of texts concerning nature in MSS British Library, Additional 22719 and Cotton Galba E IV Adelard of Bath and the Arabs Antioch as a link between Arabic and Latin culture in the 12th and 13th centuries 'Magister Iohannes Hispalensis et Limie…
"The Ante-Nicene Christian Pasch "De ratione paschali
The Reel Watts
Attitudes Towards the Mongols in Medieval Literature
Attitudes Towards the Mongols in Medieval literature: The XXII Kings of Gog and Magog from the Court of Frederick II to Jean de Mandeville." This article gives an example of how myth and historical fact interpenetrated in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. It shows how texts on the wonders of nature and an episode from the Alexander Romance were brought together and progressively modified during the period in which Europeans first became aw…
The Semantics of Indian Numerals in Arabic, Greek and Latin
The Certitude of Astrology
Abū Ma'shar (787-886) and al-Qābīsī (mid-10th century) were active astrologers and defenders of the scientific character of their discipline. They wrote works on criticisms brought forward against the discipline and challenged practitioners whom they considered as detrimental for the esteem and future fate of their science. Nevertheless, both writers can be seen as heirs to a single tradition of thought, which took its origins in Ptolemy's Tetrab…
The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History
East (and South) Asian Traditions in Astrology and Divination as Viewed from the West
The articles in this book offer a fascinating panorama of the status and practice of astrology and divination in several Asian societies, including Mongolia, Tibet, India, Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, Japan and Cambodia. In most of these cultures there is an interplay between native traditions and imported Indian or Chinese traditions. In some periods and in some places, astrology is part of the curriculum of universities, or the remit of an official …
A group of Arabic–Latin translators working in northern Spain in the mid-12th century
In his classic study of the transmission of Arabic science into Latin, which contributed so much to our knowledge of the “Renaissance” of the 12th century, Charles Homer Haskins was the first scholar to bring into clear focus the morass of bibliographical information given by Wüstenfeld and Steinschneider, and he was able to define, on the basis of fresh investigation of the manuscript material, the activity and personalities of individual transl…
A group of Arabic–Latin translators working in northern Spain in the mid-12th century
In his classic study of the transmission of Arabic science into Latin, which contributed so much to our knowledge of the “Renaissance” of the 12th century, Charles Homer Haskins was the first scholar to bring into clear focus the morass of bibliographical information given by Wüstenfeld and Steinschneider, and he was able to define, on the basis of fresh investigation of the manuscript material, the activity and personalities of individual transl…
An Apocryphal Letter from the Arabic Philosopher AI Kindi to Theodore, Frederick II's Astrologer, Concerning Gog and Magog, the Enclosed Nations, and the Scourge of the Mongols
The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History
Peter Apian und Azophi
B. Reviews
REGIERUNG UND VERWALTUNG DES VORDEREN ORIENTS IN ISLAMISCHER ZEIT. TEIL 2. Mit Beiträgen von D. SOURDEL und J. BOSCH VILÁ. (Handbuch der Orientalistik, Band VI: Geschichte der islamischen Länder, Abschnitt 5.) Leiden, Brill, 1988. vi, 152pp. Hfl.68.‐ (58.‐ to Series subscribers). BRITAIN AND THE MIDDLE EAST: AN ECONOMIC HISTORY 1945–87. By FRANK BRENCHLEY. (Middle East Studies.) London, Lester Crook, 1989. 391pp. AN IMPERIAL TWILIGHT. By SIR GAWA…
Attitudes Towards the Mongols in Medieval Literature
Attitudes Towards the Mongols in Medieval literature: The XXII Kings of Gog and Magog from the Court of Frederick II to Jean de Mandeville." This article gives an example of how myth and historical fact interpenetrated in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. It shows how texts on the wonders of nature and an episode from the Alexander Romance were brought together and progressively modified during the period in which Europeans first became aw…
Al-Kindī on Judicial Astrology
Al-Kindī's Forty Chapters was one of the most influential astrological texts in the Middle Ages in the Arabic and Latin-reading world. Yet it has never been studied by modern scholars and has not even been properly identified in the standard bibliographies and encyclopaedias of Arabic literature. This study describes the work as it appears in the Arabic MS, Jerusalem, Khālidī Library, 21(2)-Astr.-2; sets it in the tradition of Greek, Persian and …
Constantine the African and ‘Alī Ibn al-‘Abbās al-Mağūsī
When the tenth-century Kāmil as-sinā‘a (or al-Kitāb al-malakī) of ‘Alī ibn al-‘Abbās al-Mağūsī was adapted for a Latin-reading audience by Constantine the African in the late eleventh century, the medieval West had, for the first time, the opportunity to use a text which covered the whole of medicine. But the 100-odd extant manuscripts suggest that Contantine's Pantegni was put together over a considerable period of time, and chapters from other …
The chapter on the spirits in the Pantegni of Constantine the African
Arab Astronomy, Recovered Renaissance
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The Introduction of Aristotle's Natural Philosophy into Great Britain
Abū Maʿšar
The Organon of Aristotle in the Medieval Oriental and Occidental Traditions
Al-kindī on finding buried treasure
Al-Kindī contributed to the Arabic literature on methods of finding buried treasure. His short text on the subject has survived in two forms: a Letter , and a chapter of his astrological work known as The Forty Chapters . This article includes editions and translations of both these texts, as well as of the two Latin translations made of the chapter in The Forty Chapters and comments on the procedure advocated by al-Kindī
L'idea di natura nell'Italia normannosveva. Piero Morpurgo , Alexander Murray
History of Universities
Volume XIV of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles, book reviews, conference reports, and bibliographical information, which makes this annual publication such an indispensable book for the historian of higher education.
Give him the White Cow
‘Give [him] the white cow,’ writes a student about a colleague who cannot understand a mathematical problem inserted at the beginning of the tenth book of Euclid’s Elements. This problem comes ‘from the wallet of Reginald’, writes another. ‘A man of Adelard’s intelligence will not fail to grasp this’, adds a third. This paper deals with the evidence for note-taking by masters and students in the context of the early stages of European universitie…
Die alteste lateinische Schrist uber das indische Rechnen nach al-Hwarizmi . Menso Folkerts, Paul Kunitzsch
Constantine the African and ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Maǧūsī
The Coherence of the Arabic-Latin Translation Program in Toledo in the Twelfth Century
This article reassesses the reasons why Toledo achieved prominence as a center for Arabic-Latin translation in the second half of the twelfth century, and suggests that the two principal translators, Gerard of Cremona and Dominicus Gundissalinus, concentrated on different areas of knowledge. Moreover, Gerard appears to have followed a clear program in the works that he translated. This is revealed especially in the Vita and the “commemoration of …
The Certitude of Astrology
Abū Ma'shar (787-886) and al-Qābīsī (mid-10th century) were active astrologers and defenders of the scientific character of their discipline. They wrote works on criticisms brought forward against the discipline and challenged practitioners whom they considered as detrimental for the esteem and future fate of their science. Nevertheless, both writers can be seen as heirs to a single tradition of thought, which took its origins in Ptolemy's Tetrab…
Monitoring Current Status of and Trends in Boreal Forest Land Use in Russian Karelia
Burnett, C., A. Fall, E. Tomppo and R. Kalliola 2003. Monitoring current status of and trends in boreal forest land use in russian karelia. Conservation Ecology 7(2): 8. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-00532-070208
Le "Speculum astronomiae," une énigme? Enquête sur les manuscrits . Agostino Paravicini Bagliani
Abu Masar on Historical Astrology
Studies in the History of the Exact Sciences in Honour of David Pingree
This collection of essays reflects the wide range of David Pingree's expertise in the scientific texts (above all, concerning astronomy and astrology) of Ancient Mesopotamia, Greece, India, Persia, and the medieval Arabic, Hebrew and Latin traditions. Both theoretical aspects and the practical applications of the exact sciences-in time keeping, prediction of the future, and the operation of magic-are dealt with. The book includes several critical…
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