Ptolemy's Almagest

Ptolemy (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

712 Seiten

1998
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-00260-6 (ISBN)

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Ptolemy's Almagest is one of the most influential scientific works in history. A masterpiece of technical exposition, it was the basic textbook of astronomy for more than a thousand years, and still is the main source for our knowledge of ancient astronomy. This translation, based on the standard Greek text of Heiberg, makes the work accessible to English readers in an intelligible and reliable form. It contains numerous corrections derived from medieval Arabic translations and extensive footnotes that take account of the great progress in understanding the work made in this century, due to the discovery of Babylonian records and other researches. It is designed to stand by itself as an interpretation of the original, but it will also be useful as an aid to reading the Greek text.

G.J. Toomer is Professor Emeritus of the History of Mathematics at Brown University. He is the author of Eastern Wisedome and Learning: The Study of Arabic in Seventeenth-Century England. He has also produced editions of the Arabic versions of Diocles' On Burning Mirrors and Apollonius's Conics, and, with Francis S. Benjamin Jr., produced an edition of Theorica planetarum by Campanus of Novara.

Foreword vii Addenda and Corrigenda xi Preface xv Introduction i Contents of the Almagest 27 Translation of the Almagest 33 Appendices 649 Bibliography 673 Index 683

Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.11.1998
Übersetzer	G.J. Toomer
Vorwort	Owen Gingerich
Zusatzinfo	219 figures 38 tables
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 235 mm
Gewicht	992 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
ISBN-10	0-691-00260-6 / 0691002606
ISBN-13	978-0-691-00260-6 / 9780691002606
Zustand	Neuware