John Holbroke, the Tables of Cambridge, and the “true length of the year”: A forgotten episode in fifteenth-century astronomy
This article examines an unstudied set of astronomical tables for the meridian of Cambridge, also known as the Opus secundum, which the English theologian and astronomer John Holbroke, Master of Peterhouse, composed in 1433. These tables stand out from other late medieval adaptations of the Alfonsin...
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Springer Verlag
2018
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