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Alfonsine

Alfonsine adjective: of or relating to Alfonso X of Castile (1221–1284) or the Alfonsine tables, astronomical tables prepared under his patronage.

Adjective

Alfonsine (not comparable)

  1. 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.2000, José Chabás, Bernard R. Goldstein, Astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula

Noun

Alfonsine (plural Alfonsines)

  1. 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...1821 October, “Art[icle] IX.—1. Vox Stellarium, a Loyal Almanac for the Year of our Lord 1821. By Francis Moore, […]. 2. History of Chemistry, prefixed to a Manual of Chemistry, by William Thomas...
    • The General estoria says notable things about Seth and his descendents:^([sic]) not least, it tells us that these men were the first to have knowledge of the liberal arts, eminently of astrology. This bit of information comes to the work from Josephus’ Antiquities of the Jews; the Alfonsines do...1991, Charles F[rederic] Fraker, “A Hermetic Theme in the ‘General estoria’”, in Karl-Hermann Körner, Günther Zimmermann, editors, Homenaje a Hans Flasche: Festschrift zum 80. Geburtstag am 25....

Proper noun

Alfonsine

  1. A municipality of the province of Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

Examples of Alfonsine in a sentence

  • This bit of information comes to the work from Josephus’ Antiquities of the Jews; the Alfonsines do scarcely more than expand Josephus’ astrology to cover all seven liberal arts and theology.1991, Charles F[rederic] Fraker, “A Hermetic Theme in the ‘General estoria’”, in Karl-Hermann Körner, Günther Zimmermann, editors, Homenaje...
  • However, Clavius relates, Albategnius (al-Battānī) found a different rate, namely, one revolution in 23,760 years and the Alfonsines still another, one revolution in 49,000 years.1994, James M. Lattis, “Accommodations to Copernicus”, in Between Copernicus and Galileo: Christoph Clavius and the Collapse of Ptolemaic...

Forms of Alfonsine

Adjective
alternative formAlphonsine
Noun
pluralAlfonsines

Origin of Alfonsine

Equivalent to Alfonso + -ine, by way of earlier Alphonsine from Latin Alphōnsīnus.

Borrowed from Italian Alfonsine.

Questions about Alfonsine

What does Alfonsine mean?
Alfonsine means of or relating to Alfonso X of Castile (1221–1284) or the Alfonsine tables, astronomical tables prepared under his patronage.
How do you use Alfonsine in a sentence?
This bit of information comes to the work from Josephus’ Antiquities of the Jews; the Alfonsines do scarcely more than expand Josephus’ astrology to cover all seven liberal arts and theology.
What part of speech is Alfonsine?
Alfonsine can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.

Words near Alfonsine in the dictionary

  1. alfiz
  2. alfoil
  3. Alfonse
  4. Alfonsi
  5. Alfonsian
  6. Alfonsine
  7. Alfonsines
  8. alfonsino
  9. alfonsinos
  10. Alfonso
  11. Alfonso Lista

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