Book ID: CBB830237991

The First Latin Treatise on Ptolemy's Astronomy: The "Almagesti Minor" (c. 1200) (2018)

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Zepeda, Henry T. (Author)


Brepols Publishers


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 662 pp.
Language: English

This volume presents a critical edition, translation, and study of one of the most important works of medieval science, the 'Almagesti minor', the earliest Latin commentary on Ptolemy's 'Almagest'. This summary of the first half of the 'Almagest' incorporated the astronomy of Islamic astronomers and altered Ptolemy's work to make it accord with the author's scientific ideals. The 'Almagesti minor' had a profound effect upon astronomical writings throughout the 13th-15th centuries, including the work of Georg Peurbach, Johannes Regiomontanus, and many others. The 'Almagesti minor' is one of the most important works of medieval astronomy. The 'Almagesti minor', probably written in northern France circa 1200, is a Latin summary of the first six books of Ptolemy's astronomical masterpiece, the 'Almagest'. Also known to modern scholars as the 'Almagestum parvum', the 'Almagesti minor' provides a clear example of how a medieval scholar understood Ptolemy's authoritative writing on cosmology, spherical astronomy, solar theory, lunar theory, and eclipses. The author incorporated the findings of astronomers of the Islamic world, such as al-Battani, into the framework of Ptolemaic astronomy, and he altered the format and style of Ptolemy's astronomy in order to make it accord with the author's ideals of a mathematical science, which were primarily derived from Euclid's 'Elements'. The 'Almagesti minor' had a profound effect upon astronomical writing throughout the 13th-15th centuries, including the work of Georg Peurbach and Johannes Regiomontanus. In this first volume of the 'Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus' series, Henry Zepeda offers not only a critical edition of this little-studied text, but also a translation of it into English, analysis of both the text and its geometrical figures, and a thorough study of the work's origins, sources, and long-lasting influence.

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Authors & Contributors
Segonds, Alain-Philippe
Lerner, Michel-Pierre
Barton, William M.
Rozza, Nicoletta
Zieme, Stefan
Emanuele Rovati
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