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Contents: Preface. Astronomy and Optics: Egidius of Baisiu's theory of pinhole images Astronomical use of pinhole images in William of Saint-Cloud's Almanach planetarum (1292). The astronomy of Levi Ben Gerson: The Latin translation of Levi ben Gerson's astronomy Levi ben Gerson's astronomical work: chronology and Christian context Heuristic reasoning: approximation procedures in Levi ben Gerson's astronomy The ProvenA al version of Levi ben Gerson's table for eclipses Right ascensions and hippopedes: homocentric models in Levi ben Gerson's astronomy, I: first anomaly. Arabic Astronomy in Western Texts: Ibn al-Haytham's homocentric epicycles in Latin astronomical texts of the 14th and 15th centuries On Ibn al-Kammad's table for trepidation A note on Copernicus' 'correction' of Ptolemy's mean synodic month Al-Bitruji's theory of the motions of the fixed stars. Addenda et corrigenda Index.
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