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Alfonsine

Alfonsine

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Alfonsine (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to Alfonso X of Castile (1221-1284) or the astronomical tables prepared under his patronage.
    • 2000, José Chabás, Bernard R. Goldstein, Astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula:
      The tables have been published by Rico y Sinobas (1866), in the same volume as his version of the Libro de las tablas alfonsies, and he claimed that they were "numerical fragments" of the original Alfonsine Tables.

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