Alphonsine

From Latin Alphōnsīnus.^[1]

Alphonsine (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of Alfonsine.

Alphonsine (plural Alphonsines)

1. Alternative spelling of Alfonsine.
   • 1599, Tho[mas] Hill, “What the Offices or Vtilities of the Equinoctiall Are”, in The Schoole of Skil: […], London: […] T[homas] Iudson, for W[illiam] Iaggard, →OCLC, 2nd part (Of the Sphericall Elements of the Celestiall Circles, with the Vses of the Same Circles), page 77:

     Foꝛ Hipparchus and Ptholomie, haue ſtabliſhed in their time the quantity of the Tropicke yeare, to bee of 365. dayes, 5. houres, 55. minutes, and 12. ſeconds. The Alphonſines, of 365. dayes, 5. houres, 55. minutes, and 12. ſeconds, […]

   • 1661, Benedetto Castelli, “Of the Mensuration of Running Waters. […] Lib. II. To the Right Honourable, Monsignore D. Ferrante Cesarini.”, in Thomas Salusbury, transl., Mathematical Collections and Translations, tome I, 2nd part, London: […] William Leybourne, →OCLC, page 469:

     For its manifeſt, that Ptotomy could never deſcribe either the Motion of the Equinoxes, or aſſign the certain and poſitive beginning of the Year: the which he ingeniouſly confeſſeth in Lib. 3. De Almageſt. Magnum. Ch. 2. and which he leaveth to be diſcovered in after times by thoſe Aſtronomers, who coming into the World much later than he, might be able to invent ſome way to make more accurate obſervations. And although the Alphonſines & Thebith Ben Core have attempted to explain them; yet it appeareth that they have done as much as nothing. For the Poſitions of the Alphonſines diſagree amongſt themſelves, as Ricius proveth.

   • 1874, David Masson, “Scheme and Meaning of the Poem”, in The Poetical Works of John Milton: Edited, with Introductions, Notes, and an Essay on Milton’s English, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, “Paradise Lost” section, “Introduction: Bibliographical, Biographical, and Expository” subsection, page 90:

     There are various opinions concerning the number and order of the celestial Spheres; but, following for the present, for the sake of learners, the doctrine of the Alphonsines, we reckon ten, in this order:—The 1st is the Sphere of the Moon, which has the lowest place in the Æther; […]

     Translating Epitome Astronomiae by Michael Maestlin.

From Alphonse +‎ -ine.

• IPA^(key): /al.fɔ̃.sin/

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Alphonsine f

1. a female given name