Science in the City of Fortune

Eva Orthmann is Professor of Islamic Studies at Bonn University. She received her MA in Islamic and Iranian Studies. Her work focuses mainly on the history of astrology in the Islamic world as well as on Indo-Iranian studies. Petra Schmidl studied history, history of science, ethnology, physics and Arabic. Her main research interests lie in the field of pre-modern astronomy and astrology in Islamicate societies, and astronomical instruments, mainly the astrolabe, in both the Orient and the Occident.