Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
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Jan 1998
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Irish Astronomical Journal, 1998, 25(1), 49
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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A 15th century treatise on astronomy in Irish, an adaptation of a Latin translation of an older Arabic text, was transcribed and published together with an English translation and commentaries under the title An Irish Astronomical Tract in 1914. This work is familiar to Celtic language scholars but is little known among astronomers. Here we briefly describe the text, and include a memoir of its editor and translator Maura Power, a young woman who combined a specialist knowledge of the Irish language with an understanding of medieval science. We also recall two other Irish scholars - the geologist Maxwell Close and the astronomer John Ellard Gore - who played their part in recognizing the value of this early Irish scientific text.
Bruck Mary T.
Conway-Piskorski M.
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