Alfonsine

English Etymology 1 Equivalent to en Alfonso -ine, by way of earlier en Alphonsine from en la Alphōnsīnus.n. and adj. 1 1853924829 Alternative forms en Alphonsine Adjective - Of or relating to Alfonso X of Castile (1221–1284) or the Alfonsine tables, astronomical tables prepared under his patronage. en 2000 José Chabás; Bernard R. Goldstein Astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula The tables have been published by Rico y Sinobas (1866), in the same volume as his version of the Libro de las tablas alfonsies, and he claimed that they were "numerical fragments" of the original Alfonsine Tables. Translations relating to Alfonso X of Castile Portuguese: pt alfonsino Spanish: es alfonsino Noun One of the scholars who compiled the Alfonsine tables. en 1821 October Article IX.—1. Vox Stellarium, a Loyal Almanac for the Year of our Lord 1821. By Francis Moore,Physician and Philomath. 2. History of Chemistry, prefixed to a Manual of Chemistry, by William Thomas Brande,Esq. London. 8vo. 1821. The Quarterly Review XXVI London John Murray,Albemarle Street. 1822 183 https://archive.org/details/quarterlyreview138smitgoog/page/n199/mode/1up 1050155479 The oriental observers gave the method of determining the rising of the star, of taking the altitude of the sun, and of drawing the meridian line: they enabled the student to solve all the practical problems of astronomy. In the intellectual genealogy of man they may claim to be the progenitors of Kepler and of Newton; and the calculations of the Alfonsines are the remote but efficient causes of the perfection of modern astronomy. en 1991 Charles Frederic Fraker A Hermetic Theme in the ‘General estoria’ Karl-Hermann Körner; Günther Zimmermann Homenaje a Hans Flasche: Festschrift zum 80. Geburtstag am 25. November 1991 Stuttgart w:Franz Steiner Verlag 257 https://archive.org/details/homenajehansflas0000unse/page/257/mode/1up 3-515-05732-3 The General estoria says notable things about Seth and his descendents: not least, it tells us that these men were the first to have knowledge of the liberal arts, eminently of astrology. This bit of information comes to the work from Josephus’ Antiquities of the Jews; the Alfonsines do scarcely more than expand Josephus’ astrology to cover all seven liberal arts and theology. en 1994 James M. Lattis Accommodations to Copernicus Between Copernicus and Galileo: Christoph Clavius and the Collapse of Ptolemaic Cosmology Chicago, Ill.; London The University of Chicago Press chapter 6 (Strains on Ptolemaic Cosmology, Inside and Out) 164 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780226469294/page/164/mode/1up 0-226-46929-8 Instead, Ptolemy invoked a ninth sphere to provide the diurnal east-to-west motion and taught that the eighth sphere turned from west to east very slowly about the poles of the ecliptic, completing a full revolution in 36,000 years. However, Clavius relates, Albategnius (al-Battānī) found a different rate, namely, one revolution in 23,760 years and the Alfonsines still another, one revolution in 49,000 years. Etymology 2 en it Alfonsine. Proper noun en municipality p:pref/Ravenna r/Emilia-Romagna c/Italy. Translations municipality of the province of Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy Italian: it Alfonsine Romagnol: rgn References en eponyms Italian it: Etymology it Pronunciation Alfonsìne<r:DiPI> Proper noun f it commune p:Pref/Ravenna r/Emilia-Romagna c/Italy Alfonsine Derived terms it alfonsinese References Further reading enciclopedia