Edward Stewart Kennedy

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PhD History of Science University of Oxford
Masters History University of Oxford

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According to Wikipedia, Edward Stewart Kennedy was a historian of science specializing in medieval Islamic astronomical tabless written in Persian and Arabic. Edward S. Kennedy studied electrical engineering at Lafayette College, graduating in 1932. He then traveled to Iran to teach at Alborz College, at that time directed by the American Presbyterian Mission. In the Persian language environment, Kennedy made a study of Persian and became fluent in the language. After four years he returned to Pennsylvania and took up study of series of exponential form related to Lambert series while at Lehigh University. He graduated Ph.D. in 1939.

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Edward Stewart Kennedy's Published Works

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A Survey of Islamic Astronomical Tables (1957) (143)
Late Medieval Planetary Theory (1966) (42)
Studies in the Islamic exact sciences (1983) (39)
The Planetary Theory of Ibn al-Shāṭir (1959) (33)
The astrological history of Māshāʾallāh (1971) (31)
Bīrūnī on the Solar Equation (1958) (30)
From deferent to equant: a volume of studies in the history of science in the ancient and medieval Near East in honor of E.S. Kennedy. (1987) (25)
THE EXACT SCIENCES (1975) (21)
Geographical coordinates of localities from Islamic sources (1987) (20)
Astronomy and Astrology in the Medieval Islamic World (1998) (18)
THE EXACT SCIENCES IN IRAN UNDER THE SALJUQS AND MONGOLS (1968) (15)
The melon-shaped astrolabe in Arabic astronomy (1999) (15)
The History of Trigonometry. (1969) (14)
The Spherical Case of the Tūsī Couple (1991) (13)
An Islamic Computer for Planetary Latitudes (1951) (12)
Solar and Lunar Tables in Early Islamic Astronomy (1967) (12)
The Crescent Visibility Table in Al‐Khwārizmīs Zīj * (1966) (11)
Planetary Visibility Tables in Islamic Astronomy (1960) (11)
A Medieval Iterative Algorism (1956) (11)
The World-Year of the Persians (1963) (11)
Comets in Islamic Astronomy and Astrology (1957) (10)
The arabic heritage in the exact sciences (1970) (10)
Al-Kāshī's Treatise on Astronomical Observational Instruments (1961) (10)
Al-Kashi's Geographical Table (1987) (10)
A commentary upon Bīrūnī's Kitāb taḥdīd al-amākin : an 11th century treatise on mathematical geography (1973) (9)
A letter of al-bīrūnī Ḣabash al-Ḣāsib's analemma for the qibla (1974) (9)
Applied mathematics in the tenth century: Abu'l-wafā' calculates the distance baghdad-mecca (1984) (9)
Parallax Theory in Islamic Astronomy (1956) (9)
The Chinese-Uighur Calendar as Described in the Islamic Sources (1964) (8)
A Fifteenth-Century Planetary Computer: al-Kāshī's ``Ṭabaq al-Manāṭeq". II. Longitudes, Distances, and Equations of the Planets (1952) (8)
The Solar Eclipse Technique of Yaḥyā B. Abī Manṣūr (1970) (8)
The Lunar Visibility Theory of Yaʿqūb Ibn Ṭāriq (1968) (7)
Transcription of Arabic Letters in Geometrical Figures (1962) (7)
The Digital Computer and the History of the Exact Sciences (1968) (6)
Al-Qāyinī on the Duration of Dawn and Twilight (1961) (6)
The exhaustive treatise on shadows (1976) (6)
The Life & work of Ibn al-Shatir, an Arab astronomer of the fourteenth century (1976) (6)
Mission to Korea (1953) (5)
An Early Method of Successive Approximations (1969) (5)
Two Persian Astronomical Treatises by Nasīr al‐Dīn al Tūsī (1984) (4)
A Horoscope of Messehalla in the Chaucer Equatorium Manuscript (1959) (4)
The Hindu Calendar as Described in Al-Bīrūnī's Masudic Canon (1965) (4)
Two Medieval Approaches to the Equation of Time (1988) (4)
A Fifteenth-Century Planetary Computer: al-Kāshī's ``Ṭabaq al-Manāṭeq'' I. Motion of the Sun and Moon in Longitude (1950) (4)
The Chandelier Clock of Ibn Yūnis (1969) (3)
Al-Kāshī's "Plate of Conjunctions" (1947) (3)
Al-Battani's Astrological History of the Prophet and the Early Caliphate (2009) (3)
Prime meridians in medieval Islamic astronomy (1985) (3)
THE EXACT SCIENCES IN TIMURID IRAN (1986) (2)
Astronomical Events from a Persian Astrological Manuscript (1980) (2)
Book Review:Solar and Planetary Longitudes for Years - 2500 to + 2000 William D. Stahlman, Owen Gingerich (1964) (2)
Al-Kashi on Root Extraction (1964) (2)
Exponential Analogues of the Lambert Series (1941) (2)
The Astrological Houses as Defined by Medieval Islamic Astronomers (1996) (2)
Book Review: Neugebauer Papers Reprinted: Astronomy and History: Selected Essays (1985) (1)
Abu al-Wafa'and the Heron Theorems (1979) (1)
A Medieval Proof of Heron's Formula. (1969) (1)
A Set of Medieval Tables for Quick Calculation of Solar and Lunar Ephemerides (1965) (1)
Interrelations between Mathematics and Philosophy in the Last Three Centuries (1942) (1)
APPENDIX 6. Another Note on the Flood Date (1971) (0)
Notes & Correspondence (1958) (0)
Islamic Astronomy and Medieval Spain. Julio Samso (1995) (0)
APPENDIX 2. Māshā'allāh’s Fi qiyām al-khulafā' wa ma’rifa qiyām kull malik (1971) (0)
Essay Review: Alpetragius's Astronomy: Al-Bitrūjī: On the Principles of Astronomy (1973) (0)
APPENDIX 1. Māshā'allāh’s Date of the Prophet's Birth (1971) (0)
Book Review: Essays on Early Astronomy: Theory and Observation in Ancient and Medieval Astronomy (1987) (0)
Francis J. Carmody, Arabic Astronomical and Astrological Sciences in Latin Translation: A Critical Bibliography . Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1956. Paper. Pp. vi, 193. $2.75. (1957) (0)
THE ROLE OF MARAGHA IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ISLAMIC ASTRONOMY: A SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION THE RENAISSANCE (2010) (0)
Essay Review: Ṭūsī's Cosmology: Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī's Memoir on Astronomy (1994) (0)
The Korea Story. (1953) (0)
Book Review: The Istanbul Symposium: On the Observatories in Islam (1982) (0)
Al-Kashi's Impractical Method of Determining the Solar Altitude (1979) (0)
The Astrological History of Māshā' allāh@@@The Astrological History of Masha' allah (1973) (0)
The prime vertical method for the astrological houses as presented in Kāshi's Khāqāni Zij. (1994) (0)
Book Review:The Observatory in Islam and Its Place in the General History of the Observatory Aydin Sayili (1962) (0)
3. ON THE CHRONOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY OF MĀSHĀ’ALLĀH’S ASTROLOGICAL HISTORY (1971) (0)
Book Review: Biography of Al-Biruni: Abu-r-Raihan al-Biruni, 973–1048 (1978) (0)
APPENDIX 4. Additional Horoscopes of Māshā’allāh (1971) (0)
Astrolabes: A Critical Description of Astrolabes, Noctilabes and Quadrants in the Care of the Utrecht University Museum. P. H. Van Cittert (1956) (0)
The Astronomy of Levi ben Gerson (1288-1344): A Critical Edition of Chapters 1-20 with Translation and Commentary. Levi ben Gerson , Bernard R. Goldstein (1986) (0)
Book Review:A Bibliography of the Works of Abu'l-Rayhan al-Biruni Ahmad Saeed Khan (1984) (0)
Planetary Theory: late Islamic and Reanissance (1982) (0)
APPENDIX 3. Māshā'allāh's Kitāb al-mawālīd (1971) (0)
APPENDIX 5. A Note on the Flood Date, and Five Horoscopes from an Erfurt MS (1971) (0)
Klyuch Arifmetiki; Traktat ob Okruzhnosti. The Key to Arithmetic and the Treatise on the Circumference by Dzhemshid Giyaseddin Al-Kashi; B. A. Rosenfelda; V. S. Segal; A. P. Yushkevich (1959) (0)
Al-Bitrûjî, De Motibus Celorum . Critical Edition of the Latin Translation of Michael Scot. Edited by Francis J. Carmody. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1952. Paper. Pp. 180. $2.75. (1954) (0)
KASI'S ZIJ-I HAQANI (1998) (0)
BJH volume 9 issue 3 Cover and Back matter (1976) (0)
Book Review:Optics, Astronomy, and Logic: Studies in Arabic Science and Philosophy A. I. Sabra (1995) (0)
The Code of Maimonides, Book III, Treatise 8: Sanctification of the New Moon. Solomon Gandz (1958) (0)
Computer applications to the history of the medieval exact sciences: suggestions for future research (2002) (0)
Book-Review - a Commentary Uplo Buruni's Kitab-Tahdid Alamakin (1979) (0)
Notes & Correspondence (1961) (0)
P. H. Van Cittert, Astrolabes: A Critical Description of the Astrolabes, Noctilabes and Quadrants in the Care of the Utrecht University Museum . Leiden, Netherlands, 1954. Pp. iii, 50; 27 plates. (1956) (0)

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