Yazar
Iʻtiz̤ād al-Salṭanah, ʻAlī Qulī Mirzā, -1880 or 1881
Basım Tarihi
1861
Basım Yeri
Tehran -
Tehran : Dār al-ṭabāʻah-ʼi Muḥammad Bāqir Tihrānī
Konu
Astrology, Iranian, Celestial mechanics, Gravity, Mechanics, Physics, Solar system
Tür
kitap
Dil
Belirlenmemiş dil
Dijital
Evet
Yazma
Hayır
Kütüphane
Alabama Üniversitesi, Birmingham Kütüphaneleri
Demirbaş Numarası
OCLC: 1036218020
Kayıt Numarası
cdi_lindahall_digitalcollections_999199513405961
Lokasyon
Available Online
Tarih
1861
Notlar
This is the first printed (lithographed) book in Persian to introduce Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation and Western modern heliocentrism. The book is an attack on astrology as a pseudo-science and dismissal of belief in the auspicious or ominous influences of celestial bodies. Eʿteżād-al-Salṭana’s criticism of astrology followed the model of such classical Islamic scholars as Bīrūnī, Fārābī, and Avicenna, but Eʿteżād-al-Salṭana also discussed modern astronomical discoveries at length and made what was probably the first published assault in Persian on the still widely accepted Ptolemaic theory. Publication of Falak al-saʿādat had adverse repercussions in conservative scholarly circles and gave rise to some criticism to which the author responded. (From Abbas Amanat, Encyclopaedia Iranica). Digitized original manuscript available online through Malek National Library and Museum. Daša Pahor Antiquariat; For more information, see Kamran Arjomand. The Emergence of Scientific Modernity in Iran: Controversies Surrounding Astrology and Modern Astronomy in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. In: Iranian Studies, Vol. 30, No. 1/2 (Winter – Spring, 1997), pp. 5-24; Abbas Amanat, Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. VIII, Fasc. 6, pp. 669-672; A. Reza Arasteh, Education and Social Awakening in Iran, 1962; M. Tavakoli-Targhi, Refashioning Iran: Orientalism, Occidentalism and Historiography, 2001; Saeed Honarmand, The Impact of the Modernity Discourse on Persian Fiction. Dissertation, 2011; Sheldon Pollock, Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia: Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500–1800, 2011, p. 262. LHL copy bound in blue calf.