Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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2016-01-04

Two research fellows invited for 2016

The project Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus invited two research fellows for the year 2016:

Dr. José Bellver (Barcelona) will be working on the critical edition of Jābir ibn Aflaḥ's Iṣlāh al-Majisṭi (January-March 2016)
Dr. Mohammad Mozaffari (Maragha) will be working on Islamic mathematical astronomy (October 2016)