Ars Astronomica – English translations of rare Hebrew and Latin astronomy texts
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- A scholarly imprint produces first English translations of historical Hebrew and Latin works in astronomy, cosmology, and natural philosophy, many never before available in English.
- The texts span centuries and include Gersonides' 136-chapter mathematical astronomy, which survives only in manuscript and was never printed.
- These works cite and respond to each other, addressing the same cosmological questions, but until now could not be read side by side in a single language.
- Translations are produced through an AI-assisted, multi-stage pipeline and are nearly publication-ready, pending diagrams and illustrations.
- The goal is fluent, readable modern English that preserves fidelity, technical precision, and mathematical content, with glosses for technical terms and inline corrections.
- Public PDFs are text-only; diagrams are replaced with structured descriptions of every label, arc, and geometric relationship.
- The translations are available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license, with support encouraged via Ko-fi.