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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. 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 this astronomy had been a common tool of computation throughout Europe for almost two centuries, Alfonsine astronomers compiled all sorts of works on tables, instruments, procedures and theory which are now known in more than 900 manuscript codices, most of which were produced in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. These documents show that Alfonsine astronomers centred their activity around the elaboration of procedures, addressed to ever-growing audiences, rather than on theoretical speculations or celestial observations. These procedures were expressed by a complex web of procedural texts, tables, diagrams, and instruments and aimed at computing astronomical positions. Thus, the design and comparison of computational procedures for practitioners with different levels of mathematical skill was at the heart of many original works by Alfonsine authors. Following the evidence of the sources, this volume thus focuses on computational practices broadly construed. To unfold the expanded meaning of 'computation' adopted in this book, the contributions are presented in four sections. A first group of chapters considers different examples of procedural texts oriented either towards table sets or instruments and analyses how astronomers might have embedded them with computational, geometrical, theoretical, or even historiographical meanings. The second series of chapters analyses tables or table sets and explores their geometrical and theoretical grounding as well as their purposes and numerical derivation. Contributions in the third section more specifically address questions directly related to numbers, accuracy, rounding and precision, or interpolation. The last set considers two common genres at the border between mathematical astronomy and its wider public: ephemerides and horoscopes. Unfolding more than two centuries of late mediaeval astronomers' computational practices, this collective volume explores new venues in the history of astronomy. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. 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 this astronomy had been a common tool of computation throughout Europe for almost two centuries, Alfonsine astronomers compiled all sorts of works on tables, instruments, procedures and theory which are now known in more than 900 manuscript codices, most of which were produced in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. These documents show that Alfonsine astronomers centred their activity around the elaboration of procedures, addressed to ever-growing audiences, rather than on theoretical speculations or celestial observations. These procedures were expressed by a complex web of procedural texts, tables, diagrams, and instruments and aimed at computing astronomical positions. Thus, the design and comparison of computational procedures for practitioners with different levels of mathematical skill was at the heart of many original works by Alfonsine authors. Following the evidence of the sources, this volume thus focuses on computational practices broadly construed. To unfold the expanded meaning of 'computation' adopted in this book, the contributions are presented in four sections. A first group of chapters considers different examples of procedural texts oriented either towards table sets or instruments and analyses how astronomers might have embedded them with computational, geometrical, theoretical, or even historiographical meanings. The second series of chapters analyses tables or table sets and explores their geometrical and theoretical grounding as well as their purposes and numerical derivation. Contributions in the third section more specifically address questions directly related to numbers, accuracy, rounding and precision, or interpolation. The last set considers two common genres at the border between mathematical astronomy and its wider public: ephemerides and horoscopes. Unfolding more than two centuries of late mediaeval astronomers' computational practices, this collective volume explores new venues in the history of astronomy. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardcover. Condition: gut. 2022. Editing and Analysing Numerical Tables : Towards a Digital Information System for the History of Astral Sciences In deutscher Sprache. pages.

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. 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 this astronomy had been a common tool of computation throughout Europe for almost two centuries, Alfonsine astronomers compiled all sorts of works on tables, instruments, procedures and theory which are now known in more than 900 manuscript codices, most of which were produced in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. These documents show that Alfonsine astronomers centred their activity around the elaboration of procedures, addressed to ever-growing audiences, rather than on theoretical speculations or celestial observations. These procedures were expressed by a complex web of procedural texts, tables, diagrams, and instruments and aimed at computing astronomical positions. Thus, the design and comparison of computational procedures for practitioners with different levels of mathematical skill was at the heart of many original works by Alfonsine authors. Following the evidence of the sources, this volume thus focuses on computational practices broadly construed. To unfold the expanded meaning of 'computation' adopted in this book, the contributions are presented in four sections. A first group of chapters considers different examples of procedural texts oriented either towards table sets or instruments and analyses how astronomers might have embedded them with computational, geometrical, theoretical, or even historiographical meanings. The second series of chapters analyses tables or table sets and explores their geometrical and theoretical grounding as well as their purposes and numerical derivation. Contributions in the third section more specifically address questions directly related to numbers, accuracy, rounding and precision, or interpolation. The last set considers two common genres at the border between mathematical astronomy and its wider public: ephemerides and horoscopes. Unfolding more than two centuries of late mediaeval astronomers' computational practices, this collective volume explores new venues in the history of astronomy. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO30374045: 2001. In-Folio. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 178 pages. Accrocs en plats. Coins frottés. Quelques mouillures n'altérant pas la lecture. Texte en français et en anglais. Nombreuses photos en noir et blanc et en couleurs, in et hors texte. . . . Classification Dewey : 70.49-Presse illustrée, magazines, revues.…

Hardback, Pages: 550, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:38 b/w, 44 col., 27 tables b/w., Languages: English, Latin. ISBN 9782503610771. 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, Jos Chab s, 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 Jos Chab s 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 Hadravov and Petr Hadrava Computational Practices in Alfonsine Astronomy Jos Chab s 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 0 g.…

Hardback, ix + 615 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:58 b/w, 16 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503596068. Summary Astronomical tables are a significant yet understudied part of the scientific historical corpus. They circulated among many cultures, and were adopted and transformed by astronomical practitioners for a variety of purposes. The numerical data conveyed in these tables provides rich evidence for pre-modern scientific practices. In the last fifty years, new approaches to the analysis and critical editing of astronomical tables have flourished due to advances in computing power and associated modern mathematical tools. In more recent times, the rapid growth of digital humanities and modern data analysis promises exciting further developments in this area. The present collection of studies on astronomical tables captures this momentum. It is a result of long-term collaborative work on building a database of astronomical tables and other objects found in manuscripts, released under the name DISHAS (Digital Information System for the History of Astral Sciences). The fourteen contributions in this volume provide a broad coverage of astronomical traditions throughout Eurasia and North Africa, which, with very few exceptions, find their roots in the mathematical astronomy of Ptolemy. The contributions include critical editions of previously unexamined astronomical tables along with insightful mathematical analyses, as well as reflective methodological surveys that open up new perspectives for research on these fundamental sources for the history of mathematics and astronomy. TABLE OF CONTENTS Matthieu Husson, Clememcy Montelle and Benno van Dalen Introduction Part 1 : Classical Approaches to Table Cracking Glen Van Brummelen , Matthieu Husson, and Clemency Montelle Tools of the Table Crackers: Using Quantitative Methods to Analyze Historical Numerical Tables Jos Chab s and Bernard R. Goldstein The Almanac of Jacob ben Makhir Sebastian Falk Copying and Computing Tables in Late Medieval Monasteries Kailyn Pritchard Determining the Sine Tables Underlying Early European Tangent Tables Part 2 : Editing and Analysing Astronomical Tables Clemency Montelle Editing Sanskrit Astronomical Tables: The Candr?rk? of Dinakara (1578 CE) Anuj Misra Recomputing Sanskrit Astronomical Tables: The Am?talahar? of Nity?nanda (c. 1649/50 CE) Part 3: Computational Practices and Table Cracking Li Liang Tables of Sunrise and Sunset in Yuan and Ming China (1271-1644) and their Adoption in Korea Glen Van Brummelen The Tables of Planetary Latitudes in Jamsh?d al-K?sh?'s Kh?q?n? Z?j Sho Hirose Equation Tables in the D?gga?ita of Parame?vara Richard Kremer Cracking the Tabulae permanentes of John of Murs and Firmin of Beauval with Exploratory Data Analysis Part 4: Pushing Approaches to Table Analysis Further Matthieu Husson Computing with Manuscripts: Time between Mean and True Syzygies in John of Lign res' Tabule magne Johannes Thomann Reverse Engineering Applied to Ephemerides: Analysis and Edition of the Arabic Ephemeris of 1326/27 CE (MS Cairo, D?r al-Kutub, m?q?t 817) Benno van Dalen The Geographical Table in the Sh?mil Z?j: Tackling a 13th-Century Arabic Source with the Aid of a Computer Database 0 g.…

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