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Keywords:
- José Chabás,
- History of Astronomy,
- Medieval Mathematical Astronomy,
- Alfonsine and Parisian Astronomical Tables
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Biographical note
Bernard R. Goldstein, university professor emeritus in the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences of the University of Pittsburgh, collaborated with José Chabás for close to three decades. Among their joint publications are “The Alfonsine Tables of Toledo” (Archimedes: New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology 8. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2003); “Essays on Medieval Computational Astronomy” (Leiden: Brill, 2015); and “The Medieval Moon in a Matrix: Double Argument Tables for Lunar Motion”. Archive for History of Exact Sciences 73 (2019): 335–359.
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