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Eighth to the Sixteenth Century - Rashid Islamic Center

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Islam, Transmission, and <strong>the</strong> Decline of <strong>Islamic</strong> Science • 129<strong>the</strong>y remained <strong>the</strong> most popular astronomical tables in Europe untillate in <strong>the</strong> sixteenth century, when <strong>the</strong>y were replaced by ErasmusReinhold’s Prutenic Tables based on Copernicus’s De revolutionibusorbium coelestium (Chabás and Goldstein 2003, 243–247).One of <strong>the</strong> most important figures in Toledo translations at <strong>the</strong>time of Alfonso’s reign was Gonzalo García Gudiel, who establishedhis own scrip<strong>to</strong>rium around 1273 (Chabás and Goldstein 2003, 226).Table 5.2 lists a sampling of Arabic works translated in<strong>to</strong> Castilianunder <strong>the</strong> patronage of Alfonso.Table 5.2. Some of <strong>the</strong> Arabic scientific and philosophical workstranslated in<strong>to</strong> CastilianDate Arabic Title Castilian/English Transla<strong>to</strong>rca. 1263 Kitab al-mi ‘raj The Book ofMuhammad’s Ladder1254 An unknown work byAbu l-Hasan ‘Ali ibnAbi l-Rijal1256 The star catalogue for964 by Abu l-Husain‘Abd al-Rahman ibn‘Umar al-Sufi1259 A treatise on <strong>the</strong> useof a celestial globewritten in <strong>the</strong> ninthcentury by Qusta ibnLuqa1259? The treatise on <strong>the</strong>astrolabe by Abul-Qasim ibn al-Samh(d. 1035), a disciple ofMaslama al-Majritica 1258A treatise ‘Ali ibnKhalaf on <strong>the</strong>construction anduse of a universalastronomicalinstrument usingmeridian projectionsLibro complido enlos iudizios de lasestrellasLibro de las estrellasde la ochaua esperaLibro de la alcora,also called Libro de lafaycon dell espera etde sus figuraas et desus uebrasLibro del as<strong>to</strong>labioredondoLibro de la laminauniversalAbraham of ToledoJudah ben Mosesha-CohenJudah ben Mosesha-Cohen with <strong>the</strong>help of GuillenArremaon DaspaJudah ben Mosesha-Cohen, incollaboration withJohan Daspa; arevised versioncompleted in 1277Book I wascompiled by Isaacben SidCompiled by Isaacben Sid

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