Alfonsine Astronomy (Hardcover)

Langue : anglais

Edité par Brepols N.V., Turnhout, 2026

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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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Titre
Alfonsine Astronomy (Hardcover)
Auteur
Mathieu Husson
Éditeur
Brepols N.V., Turnhout
Année de publication
2026
État de l'article
new
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
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2503610773
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9782503610771

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