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Graeco-Arabic Astronomy for Twelfth-Century Latin Readers
Ptolomeus et multi sapientum (Abraham Ibn Ezra Latinus) — Robert of Chester, Liber canonum, pt. II
Series: - Time, Astronomy, and Calendars, Volume: 12
Author:
This volume makes available two little-known twelfth-century Latin sources on mathematical astronomy: the anonymous Ptolomeus et multi sapientum… (c.1145), which is attributable to the famous Jewish astrologer Abraham Ibn Ezra, and the surviving second part of Robert of Chester’s Liber canonum, which accompanied the Tables of London (c.1150). Both texts are introductory-level works originally written to educate a Latin Christian audience in the concepts and techniques involved in computing with astronomical tables. They are here presented in critical editions with facing English translations. The accompanying introductions and in-depth commentaries elucidate their significance in the context of twelfth-century Latin astronomy.
C. Philipp E. Nothaft, Ph.D. (2012), University of Munich, is a research fellow at Trinity College Dublin. He has published widely on the history of chronology, calendars, and astronomy in medieval Europe, including Medieval Latin Christian Texts on the Jewish Calendar (Brill, 2014).
Preface
Abbreviations and Manuscript Sigla
Introduction
1 General Characteristics
2 The Tables of Pisa/Lucca
3 Authorship
4 Reception
5 Transmission
6 Editorial Principles
Ptolemy and Many among the Sages …
I On the Length of the Year
II On the Construction of Tables
III On the Motions of the Planets
Commentary
Appendix: Description of C, fols. 75v–80v
Introduction
1 Sources and General Characteristics
2 Structure and Style
3 Transmission
4 The Tables of London
5 The Tables of Toledo
6 Reception
7 Editorial Principles
Robert of Chester, Book of Canons, Part II
Commentary
Appendix: Additions to the Text in A and S
Bibliography
Index
Abbreviations and Manuscript Sigla
Part 1 Ptolomeus et multi sapientum
Introduction
1 General Characteristics
2 The Tables of Pisa/Lucca
3 Authorship
4 Reception
5 Transmission
6 Editorial Principles
Ptolemy and Many among the Sages …
I On the Length of the Year
II On the Construction of Tables
III On the Motions of the Planets
Commentary
Appendix: Description of C, fols. 75v–80v
Part 2 Robert of Chester, Liber Canonum, pt. II: Tables of London
Introduction
1 Sources and General Characteristics
2 Structure and Style
3 Transmission
4 The Tables of London
5 The Tables of Toledo
6 Reception
7 Editorial Principles
Robert of Chester, Book of Canons, Part II
Commentary
Appendix: Additions to the Text in A and S
Bibliography
Index
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