Edward Stewart Kennedy

Edward Stewart Kennedy (3 January 1912 in San Ángel, México D.F. – 4 May 2009 in Doylestown, Pennsylvania) was a historian of science specializing in medieval Islamic astronomical tables written in Persian and Arabic.

• A survey of Islamic astronomical tables, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, N. S. Vol. 46, Part 2, 1956. ISBN 0-87169-462-X [1]
• (with Mohammad Saffouri & Adnan Ifram), Al-Bīrūnī on Transits. Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1959. Reprinted: Frankfurt am Main: Institut für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften, 1988 (Islamic Mathematics and Astronomy 33).
• The Planetary Equatorium of Jamshīd Ghiyāth al-Dīn al-Kāshī (d. 1429). Princeton University Press: 1960.
• "The Exact Sciences in Iran under the Saljuqs and Mongols," in The Cambridge History of Iran Volume 5: The Saljuq and Mongol Periods, ed. J. A. Boyle. Cambridge University Press, 1968. ISBN 9780521069366
• "The History of Trigonometry" (Chapter 6 of Historical Topics for the Mathematics Classroom). Washington DC: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1969.
• "The Arabic Heritage in the Exact Sciences," Al-Abhath 23: 327-344 (1970).
• (with David Pingree) The Astrological History of Mā'shā'allāh. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1971. ISBN 9780674863965
• A Commentary upon Bīrunī's Kitaāb Taādīd [Nihāyāt] al-Amākin--An 11th century treatise on mathematical geography. Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1973. Reprinted: Frankfurt am Main: Institut für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften, 1992.
• "The Exact Sciences during the Abbasid Period," in The Cambridge History of Iran Volume 4: The Period from the Arab Invasion to the Saljuqs, ed. Richard Nelson Frye, Cambridge University Press, 1975. ISBN 9780521200936
• The Exhaustive Treatise on Shadows by Abu al-Rayḥān Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī, 2 vols. Aleppo: University of Aleppo, Institute for the History of Arabic Science, 1976.
• (with Imad Ghanem, eds.) The Life & Work of Ibn al-Shāṭir--An Arab Astronomer of the Fourteenth Century. Aleppo: University of Aleppo, Institute for the History of Arabic Science, 1976.
• (transl. with Fuad I. Haddad, commentary with David E. Pingree) The Book of the Reasons Behind Astronomical Tables (Kitāb fi 'ilal al-ziījāt) by 'Ali ibn Sulayman al-Hashimi. New York: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, Delmar, 1981.
• "The Exact Sciences in Timurid Iran," in The Cambridge History of Iran Volume 6: The Timurid and Savafid Periods, eds. Peter Jackson & Lawrence Lockhart. Cambridge University Press, 1986. ISBN 9780521200943
• (with Mary Helen Kennedy) Geographical Coordinates of Localities from Islamic Sources. Frankfurt am Main: Institut für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften, 1987.
• Studies in the Islamic Exact Sciences. Syracuse University Press, 1990. ISBN 978-0815660675
• On the Contents and Significance of the Khāqānī Zīj by Jamshīd Ghiyāth al-Dīn al-Kāshī (Islamic Mathematics and Astronomy volume 84). Frankfurt am Main: Institut für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften, 1998.
• Astronomy and Astrology in the Medieval Islamic World. Aldershot UK: Ashgate/Variorum, 1998.
• (with Paul Kunitzsch and Richard P. Lorch) The Melon-Shaped Astrolabe in Arabic Astronomy. Stuttgart: Steiner, 1999.
• "Al-Bīrūnī (or Bērūnī), Abū Rayḥān (or Abu'l-Rayḥān) Muḥammad Ibn Aḥmad", Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Encyclopedia.com (2008) [1970–80]