About the Author

Michio Yano, Professor of Kyoto Sangyo University, teaches Sanskrit, Arabic, and History of Science. He has published extensively on the History of Indian astronomy and astrology, including Astrologers' India (Tokyo, 1992, in Japanese).
Charles Burnett, Ph.D. (Cambridge, 1976), lecturer in the history of Arabic/Islamic influence in Europe in the Middle Ages at the Warburg Institute, University of London, has written over fifty articles on the transmission of Arabic learning and medieval European culture.
Keiji Yamamoto was Associate Professor at Kyoto Sangyo University, Institute for World Affairs and Cultures. He edited and translated several Arabic astrology texts into English and Japanese.

Reviews

'This is another excellent contribution to the steadily increasing archive of classic astrological texts. There is little to say except buy it.'
Nick Campion, Astrology Quarterly, 1994.
'[The authors] have admirably succeeded in their goal to enrich our knowledge of medieval astrology.'
Medical History, 1995.
'...this learned and convenient edition of Albumasar's work is a major contribution to scholarship.'
Leonard R.N. Ashley, Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 1995.
'...a work that must be considered a model of its kind and an example of how Latinists and Arabists must collaborate to illuminate the building of Arabic medieval astrology.'
Angel Mestres, ISIS, 1996.