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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: .1 38 ALPHONSUS. ALPHONSUS X. king of Leon and Castile, who has been surnamed The Wise, on account of his attachment to literature, is now more celebrated for having been an astronomer than a king. He was born in 1203, succeeded his father Ferdinand III. in 1252, and died in 1284, consequently at the age of 81. The affairs of the reign of Alphonsus were very extraordinary and unfortunate, but we shall here only consider him in that part of his character, on account of which he has a place in this work, namely, as an astronomer and a man of letters. He acquired a profound knowledge of astronomy, philosophy, and history, and composed books upon the motions of the heavens, and on the history of Spain, which are highly commended. What can be more surprising, says Mariana, than that a prince, educated in a camp, and handling arms from his childhood, should have such a .knowledge of the stars, of philosophy, and the transactions of the world, aS men of leisure can scarcely acquire in their retirements ? There are extant some books of Alphonsus on the motions of the stars, and the history of Spain, written with great skill and incredible care. In his astronomical pursuits he discovered that the tables of Ptolemy were full of errors, and was the first to undertake the task of correcting them. For this purpose, about the year 1240, and during the life of his father, he assembled at Toledo the most skilful astronomers of his time, Christians, Moors, or Jews, when a plan was formed for constructing new tables. This task was accomplished about 1252, the first year of his reign; the tables being drawn up chiefly by the skill and pains of Rabbi Isaac Hazan, a learned Jew, and ' the work called the Alphonsine Tables in honour of the prince, who was at vast expences concerning them....


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217296601
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 202
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217296602
  • Publisher Date: 02 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 372 gr


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