Chapter ID: CBB000651346

“In order that we should not ourselves appear to be adjusting our estimates…to make them fit some predetermined amount” (2005)

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Description On the way that Ptolemy adjusts his data to fit his needs in his Almagest and Geography.


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Book Buchwald, Jed Z.; Franklin, Allan (2005) Wrong for the Right Reasons. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Jones, Alexander
Duke, Dennis W.
Swerdlow, Noel M.
Stückelberger, Alfred
Pingree, David Edwin
Pérez Jiménez, Aurelio
Journals
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Sciamvs: Sources and Commentaries in Exact Sciences
Perspectives on Science
MHNH (Revista Internacional de Investigación sobre Magia y Astrología Antiguas)
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
Hempen Verlag
Springer
MIT Press
University of Toronto
Concepts
Astronomy
Geography
Cosmology
Astrology
Solar system; planets
Solar astronomy
People
Ptolemy
Theon of Alexandria
Hipparchos of Rhodes
Rhetorios
Heliodoros
Geminus of Rhodes
Time Periods
Ancient
Early modern
Modern
Renaissance
Places
Greece
Rome (Italy)
Middle and Near East
Assyria
Egypt
China
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