TY - BOOK ID - 77934825 TI - The astronomical tables of Giovanni Bianchini AU - Chabás, José AU - Goldstein, Bernard R. PY - 2009 SN - 1282401386 9786612401381 9047429591 9789047429593 9789004176157 9004176152 PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Astronomy, Medieval. KW - Ephemerides KW - Medieval astronomy KW - Astronomy KW - Nautical almanacs KW - History KW - Bianchini, Giovanni, KW - Bianchini, Johannes, KW - Blanchinis, Joannes de, KW - Blanchinius, Giovanni, KW - Alphonsine Tables. KW - Tabule astronomice illustrissimi Alfontii regis Castelle incipiunt sidere foelici KW - Tabulae astronomicae illustrissimi Alfontii regis Castelle incipiunt sidere felici KW - Alfonsine Tables KW - Tables alphonsines KW - Alfonsinische Tafeln KW - Tabulas Alfontii UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77934825 AB - The Alfonsine Tables became the main computing tool for astronomers for about 250 years, from their compilation in Toledo circa 1272 to the edition in 1551 of new tables based on Copernicus’s astronomical models. It consisted of a set of astronomical tables which, over time, was presented in many different formats. Giovanni Bianchini (d. after 1469), an astronomer active in Ferrara, Italy, was among the few scholars of that extended period to compile a coherent and insightful set based on the Alfonsine Tables. His tables, described and analyzed here for the first time, played a remarkable role in the transmission of the Alfonsine Tables and in their transition from manuscript to printing Medieval and Early Modern Science , 10 ER -