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Ptolemy in Perspective: Use and Criticism of His Work from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century (2010)

Jones, Alexander (Editor)

Springer

ISBN: 9789048127887

Publication Date: 2010
Physical Details: xv + 229 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.
Language: English

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Astronomy Cosmology Astrology Commentaries Ancient Renaissance Early modern Modern Greece Rome (Italy) Ptolemy

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Chapter Tihon, Anne (2010) An Unpublished Astronomical Papyrus Contemporary with Ptolemy. In: Ptolemy in Perspective: Use and Criticism of His Work from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century (p. 1). unapi

Chapter Jones, Alexander (2010) Ancient Rejection and Adoption of Ptolemy's Frame of Reference for Longitudes. In: Ptolemy in Perspective: Use and Criticism of His Work from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century (p. 11). unapi

Chapter Mittenhuber, Florian (2010) The Tradition of Texts and Maps in Ptolemy's Geography. In: Ptolemy in Perspective: Use and Criticism of His Work from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century (p. 95). unapi

Chapter Steele, J. M. (2010) Dunthorne, Mayer, and Lalande on the Secular Acceleration of the Moon. In: Ptolemy in Perspective: Use and Criticism of His Work from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century (p. 203). unapi

Chapter Heilen, Stephan (2010) Ptolemy's Doctrine of the Terms and Its Reception. In: Ptolemy in Perspective: Use and Criticism of His Work from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century (p. 45). unapi

Chapter Ragep, F. Jamil (2010) Islamic Reactions to Ptolemy's Imprecisions. In: Ptolemy in Perspective: Use and Criticism of His Work from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century (p. 121). unapi

Chapter Rutkin, H. Darrel (2010) The Use and Abuse of Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe: Two Case Studies (Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Filippo Fantoni). In: Ptolemy in Perspective: Use and Criticism of His Work from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century (p. 135). unapi

Chapter Swerdlow, N. M. (2010) Tycho, Longomontanus, and Kepler on Ptolemy's Solar Observations and Theory, Precession of the Equinoxes, and Obliquity of the Ecliptic. In: Ptolemy in Perspective: Use and Criticism of His Work from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century (p. 151). unapi

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