![Alfonso X [Alfonso X of Castile; Alfonso the Astronomer; Alfonso the Wise] (1221–84)](https://images.tandf.co.uk/common/jackets/crclarge/978100322/9781003220435.jpg "Alfonso X [Alfonso X of Castile; Alfonso the Astronomer; Alfonso the Wise] (1221–84)")
ABSTRACT
King of León and Castile (from 1252), born in Burgos, Spain, founded the Castilian national culture. He commissioned the first general history of Spain to be composed in Castilian, a translation of the Old Testament, a great code of laws (Siete Partidas) and a planetary table. The planetary tables were a development of the work of Azarchiel (the Toledan Tables)
