On Ibn al-Kammad's table for trepidation (Q1380392)
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On Ibn al-Kammad's table for trepidation (English)
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28 June 1998
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There are presented some contributions of Ibn al-Kammad (Islamic Spain, around 1200 A.D.) to the construction of trepidation tables. The author focuses on the trepidation table for the equation of access and recess of the first point of Aries from the vernal point. He uses the analysis by \textit{J. Chabás} and \textit{B. R. Goldstein} [Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 48, 1--41 (1992; Zbl 0765.01001)] of the trepidation tables of Ibn al-Kammad and an anonymous Castilian version made probably in XIIIth century (Segovia, Cathedral). There are discussed the methods of ibn-Kammad and there are included five tables. An appendix contains a fragment (in Spanish) of the Segovian manuscript. There are also considered other aspects of the astronomical work of al-Kammad.
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tables for trepidation
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Islamic Spain
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