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" Almucantar - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Kunitzsch, Paul
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English
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1060460
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ALei857
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Kunitzsch, Paul
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Almucantar - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Kunitzsch, Paul
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(211 words)
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Almucantar , also almacantar, is the Latin term used by Western astronomers to denote, on the plates of the planispheric astrolabe, the circles parallel to the horizon for a given geographical latitude. The term derives from Arabic al-muqanṭara , pl. al-muqanṭarāt , in the phrase al-dāʾira al-muqanṭara , that is, “the circle formed like the arch of a bridge (qanṭara) .” These circles could be drawn for each of the eighty-nine degrees of altitude above the horizon, with 90° being the zenith, or for increments of two, three, five, or
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Islam.
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ALei857.pdf
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