Alfonsine

English

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• Alphonsine

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

     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.

Translations

relating to Alfonso X of Castile

• Portuguese: alfonsino
• Spanish: alfonsino (es)

Noun

Alfonsine (plural Alfonsines)

1. One of the scholars who compiled the Alfonsine tables.
   • 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 Brande, […]”, in The Quarterly Review, volume XXVI, London: John Murray, […], published 1822, →OCLC, page 183:

     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 Kepler and of Newton; and the calculations of the Alfonsines are the remote but efficient causes of the perfection of modern astronomy.

   • 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. November 1991, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, →ISBN, page 257:

     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 scarcely more than expand Josephus’ astrology to cover all seven liberal arts and theology.

   • 1994, James M. Lattis, “Accommodations to Copernicus”, in Between Copernicus and Galileo: Christoph Clavius and the Collapse of Ptolemaic Cosmology, Chicago, Ill.; London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, chapter 6 (Strains on Ptolemaic Cosmology, Inside and Out), page 164:

     Instead, Ptolemy invoked a ninth sphere to provide the diurnal east-to-west motion and taught that the eighth sphere turned from west to east very slowly about the poles of the ecliptic, completing a full revolution in 36,000 years. 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.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian Alfonsine.

Proper noun

Alfonsine

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

Translations

municipality of the province of Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

• Italian: Alfonsine
• Romagnol: please add this translation if you can