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Author:   Jose Chabas Bergon ,  Bernard R. Goldstein
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   5
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.780kg
ISBN:  

9789004281745

ISBN 10:   9004281746
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   14 November 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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

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Jose Chabas, Ph.D. (1989), University of Barcelona, Spain, now at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, has focused on the review of astronomical tables and the computational methods used to compile them, as a means to study the transmission of astronomical ideas throughout Western Europe. Bernard R. Goldstein, Ph.D. (1963), Brown University, is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh. Together with Jose Chabas he has published several books, most recently A Survey of European Astronomical Tables in the Late Middle Ages (Brill, 2012).

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