Alexander Jones
Springer Netherlands
2010e druk, 2009
9789048127870
Ptolemy in Perspective
Use and Criticism of his Work from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
Specificaties
Gebonden, 229 blz.
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Engels
Springer Netherlands |
2010e druk, 2009
ISBN13: 9789048127870
Rubricering
Onderdeel van serie
Archimedes
Verwachte levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen
Samenvatting
Ptolemy was the most important physical scientist of the Roman Empire, and for a millennium and a half his writings on astronomy, astrology, and geography were models for imitation, resources for new work, and targets of criticism. Ptolemy in Perspective traces reactions to Ptolemy from his own times to ours. The nine studies show the complex processes by which an ancient scientist and his work gained and subsequently lost an overreaching reputation and authority.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9789048127870
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Aantal pagina's:229
Uitgever:Springer Netherlands
Druk:2010
Serie:Archimedes
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction
Anne Tihon
An unpublished astronomical papyrus contemporary with Ptolemy
Alexander Jones
Ancient rejection and Adoption of Ptolemy's Frame of Reference for Longitudes
Stephan Heilen
Ptolemy's doctrine of the Terms and its reception
Florian Mittenhuber
The tradition of texts and maps in Ptolemy's Geography
F. Jamil Ragep
Islamic reactions to Ptolemy's imprecisions
H. Darrel Rutkin
The use and abuse of Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos in Renaissance and early modern Europe: two case studies (Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Filippo Fantoni)
N. M. Swerdlow
Tycho, Longomontanus, and Kepler on Ptolemy's solar observations and theory, precession of the equinoxes, and obliquity of the ecliptic
John M. Steele
Dunthorne, Mayer, and Lalande on the secular acceleration of the moon
Bibliography
Anne Tihon
An unpublished astronomical papyrus contemporary with Ptolemy
Alexander Jones
Ancient rejection and Adoption of Ptolemy's Frame of Reference for Longitudes
Stephan Heilen
Ptolemy's doctrine of the Terms and its reception
Florian Mittenhuber
The tradition of texts and maps in Ptolemy's Geography
F. Jamil Ragep
Islamic reactions to Ptolemy's imprecisions
H. Darrel Rutkin
The use and abuse of Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos in Renaissance and early modern Europe: two case studies (Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Filippo Fantoni)
N. M. Swerdlow
Tycho, Longomontanus, and Kepler on Ptolemy's solar observations and theory, precession of the equinoxes, and obliquity of the ecliptic
John M. Steele
Dunthorne, Mayer, and Lalande on the secular acceleration of the moon
Bibliography
