Article ID: CBB000027736

On the fractions of degrees in an ancient star catalogue (1979)

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Description Ptolemy's Syntaxis contains a star catalogue that is basically Hipparchus's, a fact Ptolemy did not acknowledge.


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Authors & Contributors
Duke, Dennis W.
Thurston, Hugh
Goldstein, Bernard R.
Wolff, Michael
Toomer, G. J.
Rawlins, Dennis
Journals
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Concepts
Astronomy
Sun
Stars; stellar astronomy
Mechanics
Cosmology
Tables; catalogs; lists
People
Hipparchos of Rhodes
Ptolemy
Pliny the Elder
Geminus
Galilei, Galileo
Eratosthenes of Cyrene
Time Periods
Ancient
17th century
Places
Greece
Rome (Italy)
Egypt
Alexandria (Egypt)
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