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- Title
An Early Witness of Alfonsine Astronomy: The London Tables for 1336.
- Authors
Chabás, José
- Abstract
In the 1320s, a group of astronomers in Paris recast the Alfonsine Tables composed in Toledo in about 1272 under the patronage of Alfonso X, king of Castile and León. The tables compiled in Paris by a first generation of Alfonsine astronomers, including John Vimond, John of Murs, and John of Lignères, reached England, and were disseminated all over Europe, progressively becoming the main tool in computational astronomy. In this paper, we focus on an anonymous set that seems to be the earliest evidence of the Parisian Alfonsine Tables in England.
- Subjects
HISTORY of astronomy; ALFONSO X, King of Castile &; Leon, 1221-1284; LUNAR bases
- Publication
Journal for the History of Astronomy, 2017, Vol 48, Issue 3, p324
- ISSN
0021-8286
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0021828617716556