The Star Catalogue Commonly Appended to the Alfonsine Tables
@article{Kunitzsch1986TheSC, title={The Star Catalogue Commonly Appended to the Alfonsine Tables}, author={Paul Kunitzsch}, journal={Journal for the History of Astronomy}, year={1986}, volume={17}, pages={89 - 98} }
In earlier works on the history of star names! the Alfonsine Tables, or "the authors of the Alfonsine Tables", or summarily "the Alfonsinians", were often made responsible for the introduction of new Arabic material into the corpus of star names traditionally transmitted, and continuously used until today, in mediaeval Western, and modern, astronomy. Owing to the knowledge we now have of a considerably larger number of original sources, both Oriental and Occidental, and our better understanding…
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shin" is not used for any star of Pegasus in the Almagest
but some of the Arabic names used here are derived from another, anonymous, Latin translation from the Arabic dated 1206
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