Gianni,
How can I buy a copy? I would like one. Can you take Pay Pal? Jack From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gianni Ferrari Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 2:06 PM To: LISTA INGLESE Subject: THE ANCIENT ISLAMIC SUNDIALS - A new book (in Italian) After a long time I finally finished a book dealing with the Islamic sundials : “LE MERIDIANE DELL’ANTICO ISLAM - Il tempo nella civiltà islamica - Caratteristiche, descrizione e calcolo dei quadranti e degli orologi solari islamici” "THE SUNDIALS OF ANCIENT ISLAM - Time in Islamic civilization - Features, description and calculation of Islamic quadrants and sundials " The book is written in Italian language and is the complete redesign of an essay on the same topic I wrote in 1998 (150 pg.) The present text has been completely rewritten and expanded on the basis both of new studies and new translations of Arabic astronomical manuscripts published in the last 20 years, both of books and articles on Arabic and Turks sundials, both of graphic results obtained with many original programs and of my efforts to "translate" into modern language the methods described by some Islamic astronomers who lived about 1000 years ago. The book has 560 pages and contains 442 footnotes, 560 figures in black and white, including 252 original drawings. The price is 35 € (about 47 $) plus a contribution for postage, currently very high (about 10 € for Europe and 15 € for America - 13 and 20 $ ) For those interested a PDF file (100 kB) with the index of the book and some information can be downloaded from http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6616660/MERIDIANE%20ISLAM_%20ENGL.pdf and a file with some pages of the book (1.3MB) from <http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6616660/Gianni%20Ferrari%20MERIDIANE%20ISLAM_Alcune%20Pagine.pdf> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6616660/Gianni%20Ferrari%20MERIDIANE%20ISLAM_Alcune%20Pagine.pdf My best wishes Gianni Ferrari --------------------- Ing. Gianni Ferrari Lat. 44;38,18.5N Long. 10;56,05.3E [email protected] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by <http://www.mailscanner.info/> MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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