Essays on Medieval computational astronomy
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Essays on Medieval computational astronomy
(Time, astronomy, and calendars : texts and studies / editors, Charles Burnett, Sacha Stern, v. 5)
Brill, c2015
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
During the Middle Ages and early modern times tables were a most successful and economical way to present mathematical procedures and astronomical models and to facilitate computations. Before the sixteenth century astronomical models introduced by Ptolemy in Antiquity were rarely challenged, and innovation consisted in elaborating new methods for calculating planetary positions and other celestial phenomena. Essays on Medieval Computational Astronomy includes twelve articles that focus on astronomical tables, offering many examples where the meaning and purpose of such tables has been determined by careful analysis. In evaluating the work of medieval scholars we are mindful of the importance of applying criteria consistent with their own time, which may be different from those appropriate for other periods.
Table of Contents
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
by "Nielsen BookData"