An Alfonsine universe: Nicolò Conti and Georg Peurbach on the threefold motion of the fixed stars
Among the characteristic features of Georg Peurbach's influential Theoricae novae planetarum (1454) was a model of the motion of the fixed stars, based on the Alfonsine Tables, that involved both an eighth sphere undergoing trepidation and a ninth sphere subject to linear precession. Instead of...
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Wiley
2020
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