The Equatoriw of the PlanetisCUP Archive |
Contents
PREFACE Xili I INTRODUCTION | 3 |
PROVENANCE AND PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE MANUSCRIPT | 6 |
TRANSCRIPT AND FACSIMILES | 17 |
TRANSLATION | 47 |
NOTES ON THE TEXT | 62 |
THE ASTRONOMICAL TABLES | 75 |
Analysis of tables numerical values etc | 79 |
Notes and other material inserted in the Tables | 84 |
The Alfonsine precession | 104 |
The technical terms of Ptolemaic astronomy as found in the text | 107 |
Accuracy of the theory and the Equatorie | 110 |
ΙΟ The calculation of planetary positions | 116 |
HISTORY OF THE PLANETARY EQUATORIUM page | 119 |
PALAEOGRAPHY | 134 |
ASCRIPTION TO CHAUCER | 149 |
GLOSSARY | 167 |
THE PTOLEMAIC PLANETARY SYSTEM | 93 |
General foundations of the theory | 95 |
The Sun | 97 |
Venus Mars Jupiter and Saturn | 99 |
Mercury ΙΟΙ 6 The Moon | 103 |
Cipher passages in the Manuscript | 182 |
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Common terms and phrases
31 December 3eres Alfonsine Tables Almagest Astrolabe auges black thread blake thred Bredon calculation Cancer Caput cauda centre aryn centre deferent centre equant centrum cercle Chaucer cipher cleped compas comune degres deuyde diameter diurnal motion Earth eccentric circle ecentrici ecliptic Epicycle equacioun equant Equatorie equatorium error excentrik fixed folio forseide fro centre head of Aries hole instrument Jupiter label Latin latitude Libra limb line alhudda linea litel lune lymbe lyne Mars mean argument mean motus medieval Mercury meridional line Merton College miª Middle English mone Moon mote motion orbit Peterhouse Peterhouse manuscript planet planetarum planetary plate pron quires quod radius radix Richard of Wallingford Saturn sexagesimal shal signes signorum Simon Bredon sonne sunne thanne thyn Treatise true motus twixe Venus verrey verrey place white thread zodiac þat