Article ID: CBB807728350

Preliminary Remarks on Medieval Hebrew Trigonometric Tables (2019)

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In this brief communication, tables for the trigonometric functions, sine, cosine, and versine, are explored as they appear in sets of medieval Hebrew astronomical tables. Based on this preliminary account, it seems that these tables are not closely related to one another.

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Authors & Contributors
Goldstein, Bernard R.
Brummelen, Glen Van
Chabás, José
Byrne, James Steven
Byrne, John G.
Chen, Jiang-Ping Jeff
Journals
Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Suhayl: Journal for the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islamic Civilisation
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Ta-lu ts'a-chih
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Fassbaender
Sage Publications
Concepts
Hebrew language
Astronomy
Tables; catalogs; lists
Trigonometry
Mathematics
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
People
Ḥiyya, Abraham Bar
al-Khwārizmī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsā
Euclid
Ibn al-Kammad, Abū Jaʿfar
Ibn Tibbon, Shmuel
Isaac Israeli, The Elder
Time Periods
Medieval
14th century
15th century
16th century
12th century
17th century
Places
China
Spain
Europe
North Africa
Toledo (Spain)
Institutions
John Rylands Univeristy Library of Manchester
Universität Wien
Kerala School of Astronomy and Mathematics (India)
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