scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1003088

MaRDI QIDQ4335036zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Bernard R. Goldstein

Publication date 23 April 1997

zbMATH Keywords

Ibn al-RaqqāmPtolemyRegiomontanusvarying parameters

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the Golden Age of Islam (01A30) History of astronomy and astrophysics (85-03)

Review text

From Ptolemy to Regiomontanus, lunar velocities were not measured but computed along Ptolemaic models with varying parameters. The author publishes a new table (by Ibn al-Raqqām) and discusses and summarizes the other known tables and their parameters. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0855.00012].

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