Article ID: CBB001252110

The Significance of Ptolemy's Almagest for Its Early Readers (2010)

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Bernard, Alain (Author)


Revue de Synthèse
Volume: 131, no. 4
Issue: 4
Pages: 495-521

The paper explores the historical reasons why Ptolemy's Almagest was cultivated in Antiquity as a legitimate part of ancient culture. It tries to elucidate first the precise nature of Ptolemy's project in the Almagest, its relation to ethics as well as to the particular conception that Ptolemy had of mathematics. It then proposes an explanation for the fact that this treatise, both in Ptolemy's period and afterwards, was studied within the milieu of ancient astrologers.

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Authors & Contributors
Jones, Alexander
Swerdlow, Noel M.
Duke, Dennis W.
Sidoli, Nathan Camillo
Raina, Dhruv
Pérez Jiménez, Aurelio
Journals
Sciamvs: Sources and Commentaries in Exact Sciences
MHNH (Revista Internacional de Investigación sobre Magia y Astrología Antiguas)
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Science as Culture
Publishers
Springer
MIT Press
University of Toronto
Concepts
Astronomy
Astrology
Solar system; planets
Mathematics
Cosmology
Spherical astronomy; astrometry
People
Ptolemy
Theon of Alexandria
Rhetorios
Hipparchos of Rhodes
Heliodoros
Geminus of Rhodes
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
Early modern
Modern
Renaissance
Places
Rome (Italy)
Greece
Middle and Near East
Assyria
Babylon (extinct city)
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