Giddon Ticotsky graduated from the Department of Literature at Tel Aviv University in Israel 2014. In that year he won the Israeli Bahat Prize for the best original scholarly book in Hebrew for his Ph.D. dissertation about Israeli woman-poet Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936-2005), one of the most significant figures in modern Hebrew literature and poetry. He was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford's Taube Center for Jewish Studies (2014) and a Lecturer at Stanford's Department of Comparative Literature (2015).
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Astronomical Data Collection in the Medieval/Early Modern Islamicate world: The influence of the Zijs (Star Catalogs) on European Astronomy
Astronomical Data Collection in the Medieval/Early Modern Islamicate world: The influence of the Zijs (Star Catalogs) on European Astronomy
This project aims to research the praxis of practical astronomy in the Islamicate world. There are a plethora of manuscripts, Zijs (Astronomical Star Catalogs), that need to be studied, researched, edited, and translated. The goal of the research is to analyze the reasons for the astronomical data collected by Arab astronomers. To serve this purpose, an interactive tool—a Finding Aid—will be developed for the Oriental Astronomical Star Catalogs studied by 17th century Oxford English Astronomer John Greaves—one of the first Europeans to travel to the Orient on a scientific expedition. This tool will also be a teaching aid, an educational resource for students and researchers who want to study Arabic Astronomy in the Medieval and Early Modern era. It has only recently become apparent that the past historians of science focused mainly on advances in sciences in Europe, inadvertently overlooking the achievements and the influence of Astronomy from the Islamicate world.
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