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The History of Ptolemy’s Star Catalogue
Author | : Gerd Graßhoff |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2013-03-07 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1461244684 |
Ptolemy's Almagest shares with Euclid's Elements the glory of being the scientific text longest in use. From its conception in the second century up to the late Renaissance, this work determined astronomy as a science. During this time the Almagest was not only a work on astronomy; the subject was defined as what is described in the Almagest. The cautious emancipation of the late middle ages and the revolutionary creation of the new science in the 16th century are not conceivable without reference to the Almagest. This text lifted European astronomy to the high standard of knowledge on which the new science flourished. Before, the Ptolemaic models of the orbits of the sun, the moon, and the planets had been refined by Arabic astronomers. They provided the structural elements with which Copernicus and Kepler ushered in the era of modern astronomy. The Almagest survived the destruction of its epicyclic representation of the planetary orbits in the conceptual traces left behind in the theories of its successors. The clear separation of the sidereal from the tropical year, the celestial coordinate systems, the concepts of time, the forms of the constellations, and brightness classifications of celestial objects are, among many other things, still part of the astronomical canon even today.
A Survey of the Almagest
Author | : Olaf Pedersen |
Publisher | : Odense University Press (Denmark) |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
Mathematical Astronomy in Copernicus’ De Revolutionibus
Author | : N.M. Swerdlow |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 709 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 1461382629 |
When I first laid out the framework for A History of Ancient Mathe matical Astronomy, I intended to carry the discussion down to the last applications of Greek astronomical methodology, i. e. Copernicus, Brahe, and Kepler. But as the work proceeded, it became evident that this plan was much too ambitious, and so I decided to terminate my History with late antiquity, well before Islam. Nevertheless, I did not discard the running commentary that I had prepared when studying De revolutionibus in its relation to the methodology of the Almagest. Only recently, E. S. Kennedy and his collaborators had opened access to the" Maragha School" (mainly Ibn ash-Shalir), revealing close parallels to Copernicus's procedures. Accordingly, it seemed useful to make available a modern analysis of De revolutionibus, and thus in 1975 I prepared for publication "Notes on Copernicus. " In the meantime, however, Noel Swerdlow, also starting from Greek astronomy, not only extended his work into a deep analysis of De revolu tionibus, but also systematically investigated its sources and predecessors (Peurbach, Regiomontanus, etc. ). I was aware of these studies through his publications as well as from numerous conversations on the subject at The Institute for Advanced Study and at Brown University. It became clear to me that my own investigations lay at too superficial a level, and I therefore withdrew my manuscript and suggested to Swerdlow that he undertake a thoroughgoing revision and amplification of my "Notes. " His acceptance of my proposal initiated the present publication.
Richard of Wallingford
Author | : Richard (of Wallingford) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Astronomy |
ISBN | : |
The almagest
Author | : Claudius Ptolemaeus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780852291634 |
On Both Sides of the Strait of Gibraltar
Author | : Julio Samsó |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 1027 |
Release | : 2020-09-25 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9004436588 |
In On Both Sides of the Strait of Gibraltar Julio Samsó shows that astronomical sources, written in al-Andalus, the Maghrib and the Iberian Peninsula, belong to the same tradition and emphasizes the role of al-Andalus and the Iberian Peninsula in the transmission of Islamic astronomy to medieval Europe.
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author | : British Museum. Department of Printed Books |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : English imprints |
ISBN | : |
Ptolemy's Almagest
Author | : Ptolemy |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 1998-11-08 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0691002606 |
Ptolemy's Almagest is one of the most influential scientific works in history. A masterpiece of technical exposition, it was the basic textbook of astronomy for more than a thousand years, and still is the main source for our knowledge of ancient astronomy. This translation, based on the standard Greek text of Heiberg, makes the work accessible to English readers in an intelligible and reliable form. It contains numerous corrections derived from medieval Arabic translations and extensive footnotes that take account of the great progress in understanding the work made in this century, due to the discovery of Babylonian records and other researches. It is designed to stand by itself as an interpretation of the original, but it will also be useful as an aid to reading the Greek text.