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Ptolemy in Perspective

Ptolemy in Perspective 
Author(s)  
Publisher  Springer
Publication year  2010
Language  en
Edition  1
Imprint  Springer Netherlands - Dordrecht
Series  Archimedes
Page amount  244 pages
Category  Science
Price  173,60 €

     ISBN 9789048127887
 
 
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Table of contents

1. An Unpublished Astronomical Papyrus Contemporary with Ptolemy
Anne Tihon

2. Ancient Rejection and Adoption of Ptolemy’s Frame of Reference for Longitudes
Alexander Jones

3. Ptolemy’s Doctrine of the Terms and Its Reception
Stephan Heilen

4. The Tradition of Texts and Maps in Ptolemy’s Geography
Florian Mittenhuber

5. Islamic Reactions to Ptolemy’s Imprecisions
F. Jamil Ragep

6. The Use and Abuse of Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe: Two Case Studies (Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Filippo Fantoni)
H. Darrel Rutkin

7. Tycho, Longomontanus, and Kepler on Ptolemy’s Solar Observations and Theory, Precession of the Equinoxes, and Obliquity of the Ecliptic
N.M. Swerdlow

8. Dunthorne, Mayer, and Lalande on the Secular Acceleration of the Moon
J.M. Steele

 
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