Adaptations of the Oxford Tables to Paris, Mantua, and Louvain

José Chabás (1) , Bernard R Goldstein (2)

1 UPF - Universitat Pompeu Fabra [Barcelona]
2 Duquesne University [Pittsburgh]

The Oxford Tables of 1348, also called Tabule anglicane, were computed for the meridian of Oxford in the framework of Alfonsine astronomy. They had a remarkable success, for they are extant in a good number of Latin manuscripts, and they were adapted repeatedly. This paper focuses on these adaptations: the Tabule Parisiensis, with radices for the year 1368 complete and the meridian of Paris, extant in Hebrew and Latin manuscripts; the version made by Mordecai Finzi, with radices for 1443 complete and the meridian of Mantua, preserved in a unique Hebrew manuscript; and the partial adaptation by Henry Baers printed in Latin in Louvain in 1528.

Mots clés: Alfonsine Tables; Oxford Tables of 1348; Tabule Parisiensis; Mordecai Finzi; Henry Baers

Domaines: Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences

José Chabás, Bernard R Goldstein. Adaptations of the Oxford Tables to Paris, Mantua, and Louvain. Journal for the History of Astronomy, 2018, 49 (1), pp.99-115. ⟨10.1177/0021828617752698⟩. ⟨hal-02552956⟩