User:Kylebushman/Toledan Tables

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Plan moving forward:

'''My current future plan is to continue to extract more information from the sources that I already have. My sources have a lot of good information, but it is hard to extrapolate because a lot of the information is very dense with mathematical formulas and notation. The sources are very lengthy and I am still finding new and useful information as I read them; the complication is that there is so much information that it is hard to sift through. After I feel that I have gathered the appropriate amount of information, I will reorganize and evaluate what information is important and pertinent.'''

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The Toledan Tables were used in the work of a man by the name of Isaac ben Joseph Israeli of Toledo. He used a collection of various Toledan Tables along with other sources to provide information on eclipses. These eclipses had been observed by R. Isaac ben Sid, who was known as one of the authors of the Castilian Alfonsine Tables. Because of this, it was thought that Isaac ben Joseph would speak about the Alfonsine Tables, however he makes no mention of these tables, instead he references the Toledan Tables.

A large majority of these tables were directly copied from other, previously devised, tables. There is very little independent work present in the Toledan Tables. The only significant piece of independent work is something called the mean motion parameters. (3) Two main sources that were compiled for the creation of the Toledan Tables are known as the al-Battani and the al-Khwarizmi.

An important characteristic of a few of the Toledan Tables is that they took measurements of planets in half-degrees, making these tables twice as long as other tables which dealt in only full degrees.(2) These measurements were specifically found for Saturn, Venus and Mercury.(3)

There are a fair amount of errors in the Toledan Tables' calculations. The Toledan Tables are almost entirely a collection of copies of other tables. Because of this, the many errors and discrepancies are primarily considered to be copy errors.