The end of an error: Bianchini, Regiomontanus, and the tabulation of stellar coordinates - Archive for History of Exact Sciences

Giovanni Bianchini’s fifteenth-century Tabulae primi mobilis is a collection of 50 pages of canons and 100 pages of tables of spherical astronomy and mathematical astrology, beginning with a treatment of the conversion of stellar coordinates from ecliptic to equatorial. His new method corrects a lo…