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Medieval Spanish astronomers (3 C, 11 P) A. Spanish astrophysicists (14 P) Pages in category "Spanish astronomers" This category contains only the following page.
Rabbi Zag de Sujurmenza was a Jewish convert of 13th-century Spain who helped King Alfonso X of Castile with his scientific works.. Zag de Sujurmenza was commissioned by the king to write Astrolabio redondo (spherical astrolabe), Astrolabio llano (flat astrolabe), Constelaciones (constellations) and Lámina Universal (an instrument that improved on the astrolabe); he also translated the book ...
Libro de las armellas, "Book of the rings" Libro de las láminas de los siete planetas, "Book of the plates of the seven planets" Libro del quadrante, "Book of the quadrant" Libros de los relogios, "Books of the watches" The books are written in medieval Spanish, with materials taken from Arabic sources from Andalucia. Use of the vernacular ...
21st-century Spanish astronomers (12 P) This page was last edited on 18 July 2021, at 06:08 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
[8] [10] He was a major figure in Spanish mathematical circles and was considered an "expert" in the field by Gabriel Serrano, who succeeded him at the University of Salamanca. [11] According to Tayra M.C. Lanuza Navarro, a researcher at the University of Valencia, Muñoz was the "foremost Spanish astronomer of the sixteenth century". [12]
Pages in category "20th-century Spanish astronomers" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
He wrote some books popularizing astronomy, and was first president of the Spanish and American Astronomical Society (Spanish: Sociedad Astrónomica de España y América; S.A.D.E.Y.A.). He discovered the periodic comet 32P/Comas Solà , and co-discovered the non-periodic comet C/1925 F1 (Shajn-Comas Solà); he is also credited by the Minor ...
After having amicably parted from the House of Medina Sidonia, he sought recognition as a cosmographer and brought out a text titled Libro de Cosmografía ("Book of Cosmography", 1538). He received official permission to compile navigation maps, to write books about pilotage , and to manufacture navigational devices necessary for voyages to the ...