- In astronomy, the
fixed stars (Latin:
stellae fixae) are the
luminary points,
mainly stars, that
appear not to move
relative to one
another against the...
- The Book of
Fixed Stars (Arabic: كتاب صور الكواكب kitāb
suwar al-kawākib,
literally The Book of the
Shapes of
Stars) is an
astronomical text
written by...
- The
Behenian fixed stars are a
selection of
fifteen stars considered especially useful for
magical applications in the
medieval astrology of
Europe and...
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Persian Muslim astronomer. His work Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib ("The Book of
Fixed Stars"),
written in 964,
included both
textual descriptions and illustrations...
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stars are
visible to the
naked eye at night;
their immense distances from
Earth make them
appear as
fixed points of light. The most
prominent stars have...
- the
Islamic development of the
celestial globe. His book, The Book of
Fixed Stars,
designed for
accuracy for the year 964, was a "description of the constellations...
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fixed stars. Hence, for Earth, it is also the time
taken for the Sun to
return to the same
position relative to
Earth with
respect to the
fixed stars...
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consisting of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the
Fixed Stars, the
Primum Mobile and finally, the Empyrean. It was
written in the early...
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scale that is
based on Earth's rate of
rotation measured relative to the
fixed stars".
Viewed from the same location, a star seen at one
position in the sky...
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astrological nomenclature, the
stars were
divided into
fixed stars,
Latin stellæ fixæ,
which in
astrology means the
stars and
other galactic or intergalactic...
