Book ID: CBB000038652

The history of Ptolemy's star catalogues (1990)

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Grasshoff, Gerd (Author)


Springer-Verlag


Publication Date: 1990
Physical Details: xiv + 347 pp.; bibl.; index

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Review Pedersen, O. (1993) Review of "The history of Ptolemy's star catalogues". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 558-60). unapi

Review Hughes, D. (1991) Review of "The history of Ptolemy's star catalogues". Times High. Educ. Suppl. (p. 25). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Tihon, Anne
Ghalandari, Hanif
Carman, Christián Carlos
Chabás Bergón, José
Cunningham, Clifford J.
Dalen, Benno van
Journals
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
Almagest
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Indian Journal of History of Science
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Suhayl: Journal for the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islamic Civilisation
Publishers
Brepols Publishers
Brill
Institut Orientaliste, Université Catholique de Louvain
Leuven University Press
Princeton University Press
Written Heritage Research Institute (Miras-e Maktoob)
Concepts
Astronomy
Translations
Tables; catalogs; lists
Cosmology
Stars; stellar astronomy
Celestial mechanics
People
Ptolemy
Theon of Alexandria
Kūshyār ibn Labbān, al-Jīlī
al-Battānī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Jābir
al-Farghani, Abu al-Abbas
Barlaam Calabro
Time Periods
Medieval
Ancient
Renaissance
12th century
16th century
17th century
Places
India
Southeast Asia
Greece
Byzantium
Syria
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