The Astronomical Tables of Giovanni Bianchini - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Bernard GoldsteinSeries:Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and SciencePublish date:5/6/2009Pages:146
Languages:EnglishPublisher:BrillISBN-13:9789004176157ISBN-10:9004176152UPC:9789004176157Book Category:Science, ReferenceBook Subcategory:History, Almanacs, Space ScienceBook Topic:AstronomySize:9.60 x 6.50 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.409Product ID:SCZSNR780P
The Alfonsine Tables became the main computing tool for astronomers for about 250 years, from their compilation in Toledo ca. 1272 to the edition in 1551 of new tables based on Copernicus's astronomical models. It consisted of a set of astronomical tables which, over time, was presented in many different formats. Giovanni Bianchini (d. after 1469), an astronomer active in Ferrara, Italy, was among the few scholars of that extended period to compile a coherent and insightful set based on the Alfonsine Tables. His tables, described and analyzed here for the first time, played a remarkable role in the transmission of the Alfonsine Tables and in their transition from manuscript to print.
Medieval and Early Modern Science, 10
Medieval and Early Modern Science, 10
Languages:EnglishPublisher:BrillISBN-13:9789004176157ISBN-10:9004176152UPC:9789004176157Book Category:Science, ReferenceBook Subcategory:History, Almanacs, Space ScienceBook Topic:AstronomySize:9.60 x 6.50 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.409Product ID:SCZSNR780P
José Chabás, Ph.D. (1989) in Physics, University of Barcelona, Spain, teaches at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, and currently works at FAO, Rome, Italy. He studies the transmission of astronomical ideas, methods, and tables in the late Middle Ages.
Bernard R. Goldstein, Ph.D. (1961), History of Mathematics, Brown University, is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh (USA). He has written extensively on the history of astronomy, based mainly on texts in Hebrew, Arabic, and Latin.
Bernard R. Goldstein, Ph.D. (1961), History of Mathematics, Brown University, is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh (USA). He has written extensively on the history of astronomy, based mainly on texts in Hebrew, Arabic, and Latin.
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