ALPHONSUS X. king of Leon and Castile, furnished the Wife, was author of the astronomical tables called Alphonfine. Reading of Quintus Curtius gave him such delight, that it recovered him out of a dangerous illness. He read the Bible fourteen times, with several comments on it. He is said to have found fault with the structure of the mundane system, and has been
charged with impiety on that score; but unjustly, for he only found fault with the involved system of some astronomers. He was dethroned by his son Sancho; and died of grief, A. D. 1284.