Description
The manuscript contains several Astronomical Tables, very elaborately drawn up, produced by Merton College astronomer and mathematician John Killingworth’s (Chillingworth). From Oxford almanac tables, these tables provide formulae for calculating the phases of the moon and movement of the sun and they were a way of mapping the heavens, providing the true positions of the sun and moon.
Attribution
John Killingworth
Manuscript number
Arundel 66, f. 19v
Title
Tables according to the Use of the University of Oxford
Library/Collection
British Library
Theme
Astronomy | Computistics
Bibliography
Hilary M. Carey, Courting Disaster: Astrology at the English Court and University in the Later Middle Ages (New York: Macmillan, 1992), pp. 106, 202.
