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Page from Libro Primero del Astrolabio. The Libros del saber de astronomía (Old Spanish: Libro del saber de astrología), literally "book[s] of the wisdom of astronomy [astrology]", is a series of books of the medieval period, composed during the reign of Alfonso X of Castile.
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 ...
Medieval Spanish astronomers (3 C, 11 P) A. Spanish astrophysicists (14 P) Pages in category "Spanish astronomers" This category contains only the following page.
[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]
Isaac Israeli ben Joseph or Yitzhak ben Yosef (often known as Isaac Israeli the Younger) was a Spanish-Jewish astronomer/astrologer who flourished at Toledo in the first half of the fourteenth century. He was a pupil of Asher ben Yehiel, at whose request (in 1310) he wrote the astronomical work Yesod Olam.
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 ...
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 ...
Martín Cortés de Albacar (1510–1582) was a Spanish cosmographer. [1] In 1551 he published the standard navigational textbook Arte de navegar (also known as Breve compendio). [2] A decade later (1561), Arte de navegar became the earliest known English navigation manual up to date with all of the strategies used at the time. [3]