Al-Zarqali's Toledan Tables

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Al-Zarqali's Toledan Tables are a highly influential set of medieval astronomical tables, compiled in Toledo, that provided precise planetary positions and were widely used across the Islamic world and later in Europe.

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instanceOf Islamic astronomy text
astronomical tables
medieval scientific work
alternativeName Toledan Tables
approximateDateOfCompilation 11th century
c. 1060s
associatedWith Toledo School of Translators
surface form: Toledan school of translators
author Al-Zarqali
basedOn Ptolemaic astronomy
centerOfComputation Toledo
circulatedAs manuscripts
compiler Al-Zarqali
contains lunar tables
planetary tables
solar tables
tables of eclipses
tables of fixed stars
trigonometric tables
coordinateSystem ecliptic coordinates
country Taifa of Toledo
eraUsed Hijri calendar
Yazdegerd III
surface form: Yazdegerd era
field history of science
historicalSignificance major source for pre-Copernican astronomy in Europe
improvedUpon earlier Arabic astronomical tables
influenced Alfonsine Tables
European medieval astronomy
Latin astronomical tradition
language Arabic
mainSubject astronomy
celestial coordinates
planetary positions
modelType geocentric model
placeOfCompilation Toledo
precision high for medieval standards
region Andalusia
surface form: al-Andalus
tradition Andalusian astronomy
translatedIn 12th century
translatedInto Latin
usedBy Islamic astronomers
Latin scholastic astronomers
usedFor astrological calculations
calendar computation
prediction of eclipses
prediction of planetary positions
usedIn Islamic world
medieval Europe

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Islamic astronomy hasKeyText Al-Zarqali's Toledan Tables