Abstract

The paper situates itself in the framework of cross-cultural encounters in the field of astronomy in the Byzantine Empire. It briefly summarizes the progress achieved in the last decades in showing how culturally complex Byzantine Greek writings about astronomical topics have been. It focuses on the textual composition and transmission of a Persian astronomical handbook compiled around 1350 in its form in Byzantine Greek, there called Paradosis eis tous persikous kanonas tes astronomias (Inst...

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