Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 771 g
Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 771 g
Reihe: Time, Astronomy, and Calendars
ISBN: 978-90-04-28174-5
Verlag: Brill
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Contents
List of Figures
Introduction
Part 1 - Conjunctions and Oppositions
1 Nicholaus de Heybech and His Table for Finding True Syzygy
2 Computational Astronomy: Five Centuries of Finding True Syzygy
3 Transmission of Computational Methods within the Alfonsine Corpus: The Case of the Tables of Nicholaus de Heybech
Part 2 - Planetary Motions
4 Ptolemy, Bianchini, and Copernicus: Tables for Planetary Latitudes
5 Displaced Tables in Latin: The Tables for the Seven Planets for 1340
6 Computing Planetary Positions: User-Friendliness and the Alfonsine Corpus
Part 3 - Sets of Tables
7 Andalusian Astronomy: al-Zij al-Muqtabis of Ibn al-Kammad
8 Early Alfonsine Astronomy in Paris: The Tables of John Vimond (1320) 2279 John of Murs’s Tables of 1321
10 Isaac Ibn al-Hadib and Flavius Mithridates: The Diffusion of an Iberian Astronomical Tradition in the Late Middle Ages
Part 4 - Other Tables
11 Ibn al-Kammad’s Star List
12 Astronomical Activity in Portugal in the Fourteenth Century
Index