Alfonsine Astronomy: Computational Practices
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Add to basketMatthieu Husson, José Chabás ?, Richard Kremer (eds). Pages: 550 p.Illustrations:38 b/w, 44 col., 27 tables b/w. Language(s):English, Latin. Publication Year:2026. Brepols. ISBN: 978-2-503-61077-1. Hardback -
Summary
From the late thirteenth century, when Alfonsine astronomy began to take shape under Alfonso X?s patronage in Castille, to the first decades of the sixteenth century, when Alfonsine astronomy had become a common computational tool throughout Europe, astronomers compiled works on tables, instruments, procedures, and theory?now preserved in more than 900 manuscripts from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. These sources reveal that Alfonsine astronomers focused on elaborating procedures rather than theoretical speculations or celestial observations. Their procedures?expressed through texts, tables, diagrams, and instruments?were designed to compute astronomical positions.
This volume explores computational practices across four sections: (1) procedural texts related to table sets and instruments; (2) tables and table sets, their geometrical and theoretical grounding, purposes, and numerical derivation; (3) questions of numbers, accuracy, rounding, and interpolation; and (4) ephemerides and horoscopes as boundary genres between mathematical astronomy and wider audiences.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Matthieu Husson, José Chabás, and Richard Kremer
Part 1: Procedural Texts
A Note on Arabes Maxime
Eleonora Andriani, Nicholas Jacobson and Samuel Gessner
Conrad Heingarter?s Treatise on Planetary Latitude
Eleonora Andriani, Camille Bui and Nicholas Jacobson
The Planicelium of John Vimond
Samuel Gessner and Marie-Madeleine Saby
Exempla in figura in Alfonsine Canon Commentaries
Nicholas Jacobson
Part 2: Reconfiguring Tables
Mathematical Treatment of Alfonsine Trepidation
Petr Hadrava
Emergence of Auxiliary Astronomical Tables in Europe
Glen Van Brummelen
Computing Solar and Lunar Velocities and Radii
José Chabás and Bernard R. Goldstein
Trigonometric Tables of Jean Fusoris
Jean-Claude Penin
Regiomontanus on the Equation of Time
Eleonora Andriani and Stefan Zieme
Part 3: Operating with Numbers
Cyclical Radices in the Tabule resolute
Alena Hadravová and Petr Hadrava
Computational Practices in Alfonsine Astronomy
José Chabás
Proportional Parts and Interpolation Practices
Matthieu Husson
Part 4: On the Border of Mathematical Astronomy
Medieval Ephemerides
Richard L. Kremer
Astronomical Computation to Astrological Interpretation
Alexandre Tur.
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