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A reluctant innovator: Greco-Arabic astronomy in the Computus of Magister Cunestabulus (1175)
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This article is dedicated to the obscure Computus of Magister Cunestabulus (England, 1175), which offers a unique spotlight on the way the twelfth-century ‘Renaissance’ in mathematical astronomy impacted the Latin computistical tradition. Armed with an unusually broad array of sources newly translated from Arabic, among them Ptolemy’s Almagest, Cunestabulus applied his advanced knowledge in the service of traditional Latin learning and established Church doctrine, defending the non-existence ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Accepted manuscript, pdf, 287.1KB)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1163/15733823-00221p02
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- Publisher:
- Brill Academic Publishers Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Early Science and Medicine Journal website
- Volume:
- 22
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 24 – 54
- Publication date:
- 2017-03-22
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-11-29
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1383-7427
- ISSN:
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1573-3823
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pubs:664298
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- pubs:664298
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117347
- Deposit date:
- 2016-12-07
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- Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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- Copyright © 2017 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Brill at: https://doi.org/10.1163/15733823-00221p02
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