Book of Fixed Stars

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf astronomical treatise
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs Kitāb Ṣuwar al-Kawākib al-Thābita
gptkbp:author gptkb:Abd_al-Rahman_al-Sufi
gptkbp:contains gptkb:star
star charts
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:Persia
gptkbp:describes constellations
gptkbp:genre scientific literature
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Book of Fixed Stars
gptkbp:influenced European astronomy
medieval Islamic astronomy
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Ptolemy's_Almagest
gptkbp:notableFor detailed star positions
first known depiction of Andromeda Galaxy
illustrated constellation figures
gptkbp:originalLanguage gptkb:Arabic
gptkbp:period gptkb:Islamic_Golden_Age
gptkbp:preservedIn various manuscript copies
gptkbp:publicationYear 964
gptkbp:subject gptkb:astronomy
fixed stars
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Islamic_astronomers
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6