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Author Bergón, José Chabás
Title Essays on Medieval Computational Astronomy
Imprint Leiden : BRILL, 2014
©2015
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Edition 1st ed
Descript 1 online resource (421 pages)
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computer c rdamedia
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Series Time, Astronomy, and Calendars Ser. ; v.5
Time, Astronomy, and Calendars Ser
Note Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Part 1. Conjunctions and Oppositions -- Chapter 1. Nicholaus de Heybech and His Table for Finding True Syzygy -- Chapter 2. Computational Astronomy: Five Centuries of Finding True Syzygy -- Chapter 3. Transmission of Computational Methods within the Alfonsine Corpus: The Case of the Tables of Nicholaus de Heybech -- Part 2. Planetary Motions -- Chapter 4. Ptolemy, Bianchini, and Copernicus: Tables for Planetary Latitudes -- Chapter 5. Displaced Tables in Latin: The Tables for the Seven Planets for 1340 -- Chapter 6. Computing Planetary Positions: User-Friendliness and the Alfonsine Corpus -- Part 3. Sets of Tables -- Chapter 7. Andalusian Astronomy: al-Zīj al-Muqtabis of Ibn al-Kammād -- Chapter 8. Early Alfonsine Astronomy in Paris: The Tables of John Vimond (1320) -- Chapter 9. John of Murs's Tables of 1321 -- Chapter 10. Isaac Ibn al-Ḥadib and Flavius Mithridates: The Diffusion of an Iberian Astronomical Tradition in the Late Middle Ages -- Part 4. Other Tables -- Chapter 11. Ibn al-Kammād's Star List -- Chapter 12. Astronomical Activity in Portugal in the Fourteenth Century -- Index
In Essays on Medieval Computational Astronomy the authors provide examples of original and intelligent approaches and solutions given by medieval astronomers to the problems of their discipline, mostly presented in the form of astronomical tables
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Link Print version: Bergón, José Chabás Essays on Medieval Computational Astronomy Leiden : BRILL,c2014 9789004281745
Subject Astronomy, Medieval.;Astronomy -- Tables
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Alt Author Goldstein, Bernard R
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