‎BAKER (R.H.)‎
‎Astronomy‎

‎Alfonsine Astronomy: The Written Record‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 426 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:56 col., 15 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503595207.‎

‎Summary Compiled between 1262 and 1272 in Toledo under the patronage of Alfonso X, the Castilian Alfonsine Tables were recast in Paris in the 1320s, resulting in what we now call the Parisian Alfonsine Tables. These materials circulated widely and fostered astronomical activities throughout Europe. This resulted in a significant number of new works, of which there are a few hundred, extant in more than 600 manuscript codices and dozens of printed editions. These manuscripts and imprints, broadly contemporary to the works they witness, comprise the written record of Alfonsine astronomy and provide the focus of this volume. A first series of essays examines individual manuscripts containing Alfonsine works. The authors seek to reconstruct, from the manuscript evidence, the cultural, astronomical and mathematical worlds in which the manuscripts were initially copied, compiled, used and collected. A second series of essays turns from the particular codex to the individual work or author. These contributions ask how particular works have been transmitted in surviving manuscript witnesses and how broader manuscript cultures shaped the diffusion, over two centuries, of Alfonsine astronomy across Europe. A final essay reflects on the challenges and opportunities offered by digital humanities approaches in such collective studies of a large manuscript corpus. TABLE OF CONTENTS Richard L. Kremer, Matthieu Husson and Jos Chab s, Introduction Part I Laura Fern ndez, The Libro de las tablas alfonsies: New Documentary and Material Source Jean-Patrice Boudet, Laure Miolo, Alfonsine Astronomy and Astrology in Fourteenth-Century Oxford: The Case of MS Bodleian Library Digby 176 Richard L. Kremer, Exploring a Later Fifteenth-Century Astrologer's Toolbox: British Library Add Ms 34603 Alexandre Tur, From Computus Material to Preacher's Toolbox: Manufacturing a Bat-Book Almanac in the Fifteenth Century Eric Ram rez-Weaver, Bohemian King Wenceslas IV's Copy of the Alfonsine Tables and Their Place within his Astronomical and Astrological Corpus Part II Jos Chab s, Marie-Madeleine Saby, Editing the Tables of 1322 of John Lign res Alena Hadravov , Petr Hadrava, John of Lign res Quia ad inveniendum loca planetarum: An Edition and Translation Jos Chab s, New Texts and Tables Attributed to John of Lign res: Context and Analysis Mathieu Husson, Work Cohesion as a Test of Manuscript Transmission: The Case of John of Lign res' Tabule magne Laure Miolo, Retracing the Tradition of John of Genoa's Opus astronomicum through Extant Manuscripts Glen Van Brummelen, All In: Manuscripts of the Works of Giovanni Bianchini in the Fifteenth Century Galla Topalian, Mathieu Husson, From Document to Data: The Digital Projects of ALFA‎

‎Alfonsine Astronomy: Computational Practices‎

‎, Brepols, 2026 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

‎First Latin Treatise on Ptolemy's Astronomy: The Almagesti minor (c. 1200), H. Zepeda‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2018 Hardback, X+662 p., 136 b/w ill., 12 b/w tables, 178 x 254 mm, Languages: English, Latin.*new ISBN 9782503581378.‎

‎This volume presents a critical edition, translation, and study of one of the most important works of medieval science, the Almagesti minor, the earliest Latin commentary on Ptolemy?s Almagest. This summary of the first half of the Almagest incorporated the astronomy of Islamic astronomers and altered Ptolemy?s work to make it accord with the author?s scientific ideals. The Almagesti minor had a profound effect upon astronomical writings throughout the 13th-15th centuries, including the work of Georg Peurbach, Johannes Regiomontanus, and many others. The Almagesti minor is one of the most important works of medieval astronomy. Probably written in northern France circa 1200, it is a Latin summary of the first six books of Ptolemy?s astronomical masterpiece, the Almagest. Also known to modern scholars as the ?Almagestum parvum?, the Almagesti minor provides a clear example of how a medieval scholar understood Ptolemy?s authoritative writing on cosmology, spherical astronomy, solar theory, lunar theory, and eclipses. The author incorporated the findings of astronomers of the Islamic world, such as al-Batt?n?, into the framework of Ptolemaic astronomy, and he altered the format and style of Ptolemy?s astronomy in order to make it accord with his own ideals of a mathematical science, which were primarily derived from Euclid?s Elements. The Almagesti minor had a profound effect upon astronomical writing throughout the 13th-15th centuries, including the work of Georg Peurbach and Johannes Regiomontanus. In this first volume of the Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus text series, Henry Zepeda offers not only a critical edition of this little-studied text, but also a translation into English, analysis of both the text and its geometrical figures, and a thorough study of the work?s origins, sources, and long-lasting influence. Henry Zepeda is a historian of science. He is a Teaching Fellow at Wyoming Catholic College, and he previously worked in the Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus project at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. His research is focused upon medieval mathematics and astronomy of the 12th to 15th centuries. ‎

‎Astronomy of the Ancients Astronomy of Ancients. In English /Astronomy of the A‎

‎Astronomy of the Ancients Astronomy of Ancients. In English /Astronomy of the Ancients Astronomiya drevnikh. Edited by Kenneth Brecher and Michael Feirtag Edited by Kenneth Brecher and Michael Feirtag. In English. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England The MIT Press 1981. You are welcome to reach out to us for a detailed description of the copies currently available. Delivery of this book may take longer than usual including extended processing and pre-shipping time, no expedited shipping is available. Please advise us if you have a set date or a deadline to receive your order.SKUalb5f6f883b81fae462‎

‎Ivanov A.A. Course in astronomy. An introduction to astronomy and spherical ast‎

‎Ivanov A.A. Course in astronomy. An introduction to astronomy and spherical astronomy. In Russian /Ivanov A.A. Kurs astronomii.Vvedenie v astronomiyu i sfericheskaya astronomiya. L. Publishing House of the Glavsevseaway. 1940. Contact us for details or to request photos of available books. Delivery of this book could take longer than normal due to additional handling time before shipping, and no rush delivery options are available. Please let us know if you have a specific date by which you need to receive your order.SKUalb795d0100b1c0b5b0‎