Planetary conjunctions in Mamluk scholarly discourse- The science of the start in zijes, chronicles and eschatological texts in late fourteent and early fifteenth century Syria and Egypt Ghent University
This project aims to investigate the way in which astrological knowledge practices are used in scientific, historiographical and eschatological texts in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth on the use these texts make of the hitherto neglected practices of calculating planetary conjunctions. This will be studied on three levels. On a disciplinary level the project will study how categories within the science of the stars are delineated and ...