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Ptolemy’s Science of the Stars in the Middle Ages (2020)

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Manuscripts Astrology Astronomy Medieval Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemy (c. 100-170 AD) is one of the most influential scholars of all time. While he is also the author of treatises on geography, optics and harmonics, his fame primarily stems from two works on the science of the stars, dealing with mathematical astronomy (the Almagest) and astrology (the Tetrabiblos). The Almagest and the Tetrabiblos remained the fundamental texts on the science of the stars for some 1500 years. Both were translated several times into Arabic and Latin and were heavily commented upon, glossed, discussed, and also criticised and improved upon, in the Islamic world and in Christian Europe. Yet, the reception of Ptolemy in medieval cultures is still to a large extent a terra incognita of the history of science. The Arabic and Latin versions of the Almagest and the Tetrabiblos are for the most part unavailable in modern editions, their manuscripts remain largely unexplored and, generally speaking, their history has never been systematically investigated.

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Review Clifford Cunningham (2023) Review of "Ptolemy’s Science of the Stars in the Middle Ages". Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage (pp. 973-975). unapi

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Review J. Lennart Berggren (2022) Review of "Ptolemy’s Science of the Stars in the Middle Ages". Journal for the History of Astronomy (pp. 223-229). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Husson, Matthieu
Calcagno, Agata
Bekli, Mohamed Reda
Chadou, Ilhem
Chabás, José
Anderson, Benjamin W.
Journals
Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Micrologus: Nature, Sciences and Medieval Societies
Sciamvs: Sources and Commentaries in Exact Sciences
Revue de Synthèse
Micrologus: Natura, Scienze e Società Medievali
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Bryn Mawr College
Springer
MIT Press
Leuven University Press
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Astronomy
Astrology
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Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Cosmology
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Ptolemy
Theon of Alexandria
Simhah ben Samuel of Vitry (d. 1105)
al-Miknāsī, Ibn Ġāzī
Pappus of Alexandria
Pingree, David
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Italy
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Ikhwān al-Ṣafā (Brethren of Purity)
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