Before the end of an error: Giovanni Bianchini's original flawed treatise on the conversion of stellar coordinates (Q2659150): Difference between revisions

The author revisits the subject of his previous study [ibid. 72, No. 5, 547--563 (2018; Zbl 1403.01012)], where he studied the treatment of the problem of stellar coordinate conversion by 15th-century Italian astronomer Giovanni Bianchini, in his \textit{Tabulae primi mobilis}. There Bianchini ``refers to a book he had written previously, containing the same error that had plagued his predecessors' work on the problem.'' In this paper, the author announces the discovery of that earlier treatise, presents the tables of contents of both versions, which overlap in about a quarter of the text, and analyzes the ``mathematical methods and the unique tables [Bianchini] constructed for converting stellar coordinates, including the earliest known European arc sine table''.