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For an edition of the Latin text and a translation into English, see L. Thorndike, The Sphere of Sacrobosco and Its Commentators (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1949).
The most widely diffused treatise of this kind was the Theoricae novae planetarum by Georg Peurbach (1423–1461), printed for the first time in Nuremberg in 1472, but basically written in 1454. For an edition, see, E. J. Aiton, “Peurbach’s Theoricae novae planetarum: A Translation with Commentary”, Osiris 3:5–44 (1987).
J. D. North, A History of the University in Europe, p. 348 (1992).
For a recent survey on John of Gmunden, see B. Porres, Les tables astronomiques de Jean de Gmunden: edition et étude comparative, Thèse de doctorat à l’École pratique des Hautes études, Paris (2003).
On Nicholaus Polonius and the astronomical background in Salamanca, see J. Chabás, “Astronomy in Salamanca in The Mid-Fifteenth Century: The Tabulae Resolutae”, Journal for the History of Astronomy, 29:167–175 (1998).
As has been recently shown, the use of the Parisian version of the Alfonsine Tables is already attested ca. 1400 in Morella (Valencia): see J. Chabás, “Astronomía alfonsí en Morella a finales del siglo XIV”, Cronos. Cuadernos Valencianos de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia, 3:381–391 (2000).
For the Castilian Alfonsine Tables and their diffusion in Europe, see J. Chabás and B. R. Goldstein, The Alfonsine Tables of Toledo, Archimedes: New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (Dordrecht and Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003).
B. de Porres and J. Chabás, “Los cánones de las Tabulae Resolutae para Salamanca: origen y transmisión”, Cronos. Cuadernos Valencianos de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia, 1:51–83 (1998).
On the Tabulae Resolutae, see J. Dobryzci, “The Tabulae Resolutae”, in M. Comes, R. Puig, and J. Samsó (eds.), De Astronomia Alphonsi Regis (Barcelona, 1987) pp. 71–77; J. Chabás, “The Diffusion of the Alfonsine Tables: The Case of the Tabulae resolutae”, Perspectives on Science, 10:168–178 (2002).
For an analysis of these tables, see J. Chabás and B. R. Goldstein, Astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula: Abraham Zacut and the Transition from Manuscript to Print, (Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 2000).
The most complete biography of Abraham Zacut is still that written by Francisco Cantera Burgos, Abraham Zacut, Madrid (1935); see also F. Cantera, “El judío salmantino Abraham Zacut”, Revista de la Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales de Madrid, 27:63–398 (1931). On Zacut’s astronomical activity and his scientific background, see Chabás and Goldstein (note 11).
Chabás and Goldstein (see note 11).
B. R. Goldstein, “The Astronomical Tables of Judah ben Verga”, Suhayl 2:227–289 (2001).
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Chabás, J. (2006). The University of Salamanca and the Renaissance of Astronomy During the Second Half of the 15th Century. In: Feingold, M., Navarro-Brotons, V. (eds) Universities and Science in the Early Modern Period. Archimedes, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht . https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3975-1_3
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