Characteristics and Typologies of Medieval Astronomical Tables

Estève Pierre , Histoire générale et particulière de l'astronomie (Paris, 1755), ii, 231.

A survey of European astronomical tables in the late Middle Ages, by Chabás J. Goldstein B. R. (in press).

For a survey and classification of Islamic tables, see Kennedy E. S. , A survey of Islamic astronomical tables (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society , xlvi/2; Philadelphia, 1956); see also Samsó J. King D. A. Goldstein B. R. , “Astronomical handbooks and tables from the Islamic world (750–1900): An interim report”, Suhayl , ii (2001), 9–105. For the Toledan Tables, see Pedersen F. S. , The Toledan Tables: A review of the manuscripts and the textual versions with an edition (Copenhagen, 2002). For ancient astronomical tables, see Jones A. , “A classification of astronomical tables on papyrus”, in Ancient astronomy and celestial divination , ed. by Swerdlow N. M. (Cambridge, MA, 1999), 229–340.

See, for instance, Chabás J. Goldstein B. R. , Astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula: Abraham Zacut and the transition from manuscript to print (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, xc/2; Philadelphia, 2000); Porres B. Chabás J. , “John of Murs's Tabulae permanentes for finding true syzygies”, Journal for the history of astronomy , xxxii (2001), 63–72; Chabás J. Goldstein B. R. , “John of Murs's Tables of 1321”, Journal for the history of astronomy , xl (2009), 297–320.

See Husson M. , “Les domaines d'application des mathématiques dans la première moitié du quatorzième siècle”, unpublished thesis, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, 2007.

Chabás J. Goldstein B. R. , “Nicholaus de Heybech and his table for finding true syzygy”, Historia mathematica , xix (1992), 265–89; Goldstein B. R. Chabás J. , “Transmission of computational methods within the Alfonsine corpus: The case of the tables of Nicholaus de Heybech”, Journal for the history of astronomy , xxxix (2008), 345–55; Kremer R. L. , “John of Murs, Wenzel Faber and the computation of true syzygy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries”, Acta historica Leopoldina , liv (2008), 147–60.

Chabás J. Goldstein B. R. , “Displaced tables in Latin: Tables for the seven planets for 1340” (forthcoming).