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parchus.
At the close of the fifteenth century King
Alphonso of Spain employed computers to
produce the Alphonsine Tables (1488 A.D.),
Purbach translated Ptolemy’s book, and ob-
servations were carried out in Germany by
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MAller, known as Regiomontanus, and Waltherus.
Nicolai Copernicus, a Sclav, was born
in 1473 at Thorn, in Polish Prussia. He
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