The Astronomical Tables of Giovanni Bianchini (History of Science and Medicine Library)

Chabas, Jose (EDT)/ Goldstein, Bernard R. (EDT)

Brill Academic Pub（2009/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 141 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004176157
• DDC分類 528

Full Description

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

Contents

Preface
Introduction
1. Giovanni Bianchini: Life and work
2. Analysis of the tables
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Tables in ed. 1495
2.3. Other tables in the manuscripts and ed. 1526, but not included in ed. 1495
2.4. Other tables in ed. 1526 or in MS Nu that are not included in ed. 1495 or in MS Na
Notation
References
Index