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| 25 April 2024 |
This is my main account, which I now use for content work. I have another account, Unsyncategoremata (talk · contribs), which I (only occasionally) use for maintenance work.
I did come here to do content work and I would still like to do content work, but I seem to have got stuck in various anti-vandalism efforts, partly as a clean-up from this. I plan to empty my watch list in a week's time and just clean-up and content work for a month.
Well, I managed to empty my watch list on 00:00, 7 June 2010 (UTC).
- Interests
| “ | I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and I was then perswaded, & confirmed, that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God. | ” |
| — William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell | ||
I'm currently interested in the history and philosophy of science and mathematics, and more specifically, in the beginnings quantification in science. I'm currently looking at the laws of motion and the development of modern chemistry as test cases, though I mostly focus on the late antique and medieval periods, both Islamic and Christian.
My user-space pages
To-do list
- Check on the discussion of Galileo's odd idea of 'circular inertia' and comparisons to al-Birjandi.
- Check on the remaining uses of Yaqūb ibn Tāriq's planetary data from Abu Rayhan Biruni's Indica
- Check whether the discussion of Islamic astronomers attitude towards uniform circular motion in the heavens is the right way round (they criticised Ptolemy for not abiding by it).
- Check the historical claims in the celestial coordinate system article.
Spelling: Equatorium vs equitorium- Do a thorough check through and rewrite of the material on impetus theory, wherever it may hide.
- Go through all the claims on the history of the astronomical unit.
- A "saphea" (not "saphaea") is not a universal astrolabe but rather the design of the grid used to make such an astrolabe (amongst other instruments); s.v. "shakkāziyya", EI2, Vol. 9, p. 252a; see also:
- Poulle, Emmanuel (1969). "Un instrument astronomique dans l'Occident latin—la "saphea"". Studi medievali. 10: 491–510.
- Give the account of Biruni's calculation of the length of one degree of the meridian some tender loving.
- Mark Jābir ibn Hayyān's ethnicity as unknown or disputed, following the lead of his article.
- The article on Maslamah Ibn Ahmad al-Majriti has, as is common, got the two al-Majrīṭī's confused. See p. xv n. 1 of Majrīṭī, Maslamah ibn Aḥmad (1986). Picatrix: The Latin Version of the Ghāyat Al-Ḥakīm. Studies of the Warburg Institute. David Pingree (trans.). London: Warburg Institute.
- The antiperistasis article could start with antiperistasis as a the theory of motion and only then discuss it as "the supposed increase in the intensity of a quality as a result of being surrounded by its contrary quality". Could even add a note there on its use as a name for a rhetorical device.
- The history section of the alum article could be improved from Levey, Martin (1958-06). "Alum in Ancient Mesopotamian Technology". Isis. 49 (2): 166–169. ISSN 0021-1753. Retrieved 2010-05-16.
{{cite journal}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - Do something about the claims that various medieval Islamic philosophers "refuted" astrology.
- Find another source for the claim about "al-Qazwini's futuristic tale, written around 1,250 a.d. about 'Awaj bin Anfaq', a man who came to earth from a distant planet" from Khammas, Achmed A. W. (2006-10-10). "The Almost Complete Lack of the Element of "Futureness"" (Magazine). Telepolis.
- Give prima materia a generous prod and a little more context on Aristotle's position.
- al-Kindi on the tides from Dunlop, D. M. (1971). Arab Civilization to A.D. 1500. Arab Background Series. Longman. p. 224.
- Biographical information for 'Basil Valentine' from Parrington (1961).
Find all remaining discussion of evolution based on Draper, John William (1877). History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science. The International Scientific Series (10 ed.). London: Henry S. King..- Check FSTC Research Team. "Astronomical Observatories in the Classical Islamic Culture". MuslimHeritage.com. Retrieved 2010-05-24. given its use at here.
- Check on the use made of Vallely, Paul (2006-03-11). "How Islamic inventors changed the world" (Newspaper). The Independent. Retrieved 2010-05-28.. The url is also sometimes given as http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20060311/ai_n16147544, though that seems to be a dead link. (Non-specialist author, unsourced article, multiple factual errors.)
- Go through the sources on Jabir ibn Aflah's supposed invention of the torquetum. My memory is that the consensus is he described (not invented) a rather different instrument and that the inventor of the torquetum is unknown (and may be either Islamic or European).
Correct the 'philosphy' and 'philsophy' misspellings.
Useful links
- Wiki markup
- Style and article structure
- Help:Infobox
- Template:Lang
- Wikipedia:HATTEST
- Wikipedia:Template messages
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)
- Citation templates
- {{Cite book}}
- {{Cite conference}}
- {{Cite encyclopedia}}
- {{Cite journal}}
- Attribution templates
- Other templates
- {{Talkback|your username|section}}
- {{subst:unsignedIP|user name|date}}
- Arabic
- Ancient Greek
- Islam
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Islam
- Category:Islam
- MOS:ISLAM
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Islam-related articles)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Islam-related articles)/clergy
- Naming conventions
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (ancient Romans)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Greek)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (clergy)
- Mathematics
- Good articles
- Tools
Also see User:Philcha#Tools.
- Contributors a sortable page version history
- Checklinks checks external links and citation parameters
- Readability readability analysis
- WPPageHistStat an edit history overview
Problematic sources
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/Unreliable sources
- MuslimHeritage.com
- Wikipedia links to MuslimHeritage.com
- Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 18#History of Science
- FamousMuslims.com
- Not sure on the reliability of this site, but at least one of the articles there is unsourced and rather dubious. The same text appears at amaana.org, paspk.org, ummah.net, and half the blogs on the net.
- MuslimPhilosophy.com
- This site has massive WP:COPYVIO issues (for example a huge number of articles from the current Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy and a copy of Rosenthal's 1958 translation of Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah) and thus has WP:COPYLINK problems.
Follow-up list
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (21:55, 5 April 2010 (UTC))
Physics in medieval Islam for al-Farabi and vacuum experiments (22:02, 11 April 2010 (UTC))
Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī (13:36, 8 April 2010 (UTC))
Shadow square (13:31, 8 April 2010 (UTC))
Life expectancy claims; I also labelled these with {{Cn}}, {{Rs}}, {{Vn}} and WP:OR (12:00, 8 April 2010 (UTC)):
- History of medicine
- Al-Andalus
- Bimaristan
- Life expectancy
- Muslim Agricultural Revolution
- Caliphate
- Medicine in medieval Islam
- Islamic Golden Age
Abu Rayhan Biruni on "Biruni made the first real distinction between a scientist and a philosopher" (20:04, 6 April 2010 (UTC))
- {{citation needed}}
Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī (00:58, 6 April 2010 (UTC))
- Dargan 2006
The Gary Dargan quote on Al-Jahiz from the following program:
- Margaret Coffey (Contributor), Chris Middleton (Guest), Richard Rymarz (Guest), Rick Tudor (Guest), Nicholas Coleman (Guest), Brian Edgar (Guest), Andrea Horvath (Guest), Roger Fernando (Guest), Gary Dargan (Guest). "Encounter – Intelligent Design – 11 June 2006". Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio National.
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It appears on the following pages: (22:15, 5 April 2010 (UTC))
- Heredity
- Al-Jahiz
- History of genetics
- History of evolutionary thought
- Islamic creationism
- Theistic evolution
- Early Islamic philosophy
- Covington 2007
The following article:
- Covington, Richard (2007-06). "Rediscovering Arabic Science". Saudi Aramco World. 58 (3): 2–16. Retrieved 2010-03-16.
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on the following pages:
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