Graeco-Arabic Astronomy for Twelfth-Century Latin Readers

Ptolomeus et multi sapientum (Abraham Ibn Ezra Latinus) — Robert of Chester, Liber canonum, pt. II

C. Philipp E. Nothaft (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

360 Seiten

2022
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-52691-4 (ISBN)

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This volume makes available two hitherto unpublished Latin texts on astronomical tables, written by Abraham Ibn Ezra and Robert of Chester, which together shed new light on the mid-twelfth-century assimilation of Graeco-Arabic mathematical astronomy in Christian Europe.

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum	29.12.2022
Reihe/Serie	Time, Astronomy, and Calendars ; 12
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	742 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
ISBN-10	90-04-52691-9 / 9004526919
ISBN-13	978-90-04-52691-4 / 9789004526914
Zustand	Neuware