An Alfonsine universe: Nicolò Conti and Georg Peurbach on the threefold motion of the fixed stars

DOI10.1111/1600-0498.12200MaRDI QIDQ6604560zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors C. Philipp E. Nothaft

Publication date 12 September 2024

Published in Centaurus (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

\textit{Theoricae novae planetarum}\textit{De triplici motu octave spere}15th-century astronomymotion of the fixed stars

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40)

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