Alfonsine
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
专有名词
英文释义
名词 n.
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One of the scholars who compiled the Alfonsine tables.
— The oriental observers gave the method of determining the rising of the star, of taking the altitude of the sun, and of drawing the meridian line: they enabled the student to solve all the practical problems of astronomy. In the intellectual genealogy of man they may claim to be the progenitors of Kepler and of Newton; and the calculations of the Alfonsines are the remote but efficient causes of the perfection of modern astronomy.
形容词 adj.
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Of or relating to Alfonso X of Castile (1221–1284) or the Alfonsine tables, astronomical tables prepared under his patronage.
— 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.
专有名词
- A municipality of the province of Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
词源
词源 1
Equivalent to Alfonso + -ine, by way of earlier Alphonsine from Latin Alphōnsīnus.
词源 2
Borrowed from Italian Alfonsine.
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