a. Of Alphonso the Wise, King of Castile; applied to astronomical tables invented by him in 1252, etc.
1678. Phillips, Alphonsin Tables, certain Astronomical Calculations, invented by Alphonsus King of Aragon.
1797. Encycl. Brit., II. 420/2. He likewise corrected the tables of the planets … because the Alphonsine tables were very faulty in this respect.
1880. M. Pattison, Milton, xiii. 180. The old Ptolemaic or Alphonsine system … explained the phenomena on the hypothesis of nine (or ten) transparent hollow spheres wheeling round the stationary earth.
