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Henry Bate’s 'Tabule Machlinenses': The earliest astronomical tables by a Latin author
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The known works of the medieval astronomer/astrologer Henry Bate (1246–after 1310) include a set of planetary mean motion tables for the meridian of his Flemish hometown Mechelen. These tables survive in three manuscripts representing two significantly different recensions, but have never been examined for their principles of construction or underlying parameters. Such analysis reveals that Bate employed an unusual value for the length of the tropical year (c.365 1/4 − 1/112 days), which was ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1080/00033790.2018.1542741
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- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Annals of Science Journal website
- Volume:
- 75
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 275-303
- Publication date:
- 2018-11-08
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-10-28
- DOI:
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1464-505X
- ISSN:
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0003-3790
- Source identifiers:
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935207
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- pubs:935207
- Deposit date:
- 2018-10-28
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- Informa UK Limited
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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- © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor and Francis Group. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Taylor and Francis at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2018.1542741
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