Ptolemy in Perspective: Use and Criticism of his Work from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century (Archimedes)
Language: English
Published by Springer, 2010
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2010 Springer hardcover edition. Some reading wear else good condition. Contents: 1. An Unpublished Astronomical Papyrus Contemporary with Ptolemy by Anne Tihon, 2. Ancient Rejection and Adoption of Ptolemy's Frame of Reference for Longitudes by Alexander Jones, 3. Ptolemy's Doctrine of the Terms and Its Reception by Stephan Heilen, 4. The Tradition of Texts and Maps in Ptolemy's Geography by Florian Mittenhuber, 5. Islamic Reactions to Ptolemy's Imprecisions by F. Jamil Ragep, 6. The Use and Abuse of Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe: Two Case Studies (Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Filippo Fantoni) by H. Darrel Rutkin, 7. Tycho, Longomontanus, and Kepler on Ptolemy's Solar Observations and Theory, Precession of the Equinoxes, and Obliquity of the Ecliptic by N.M. Swerdlow, 8. Dunthorne, Mayer, and Lalande on the Secular Acceleration of the Moon by J.M. Steele.
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- Title
- Ptolemy in Perspective: Use and Criticism of his Work from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century (Archimedes)
- Author
- Anne Tihon, Alexander Jones, Stephan Heilen, Florian Mittenhuber, F. Jamil Ragep, H. Darrel Rutkin, N.M. Swerdlow, and J.M. Steele.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2010
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 9048127874
- ISBN 13
- 9789048127870
- Seller catalogs
- Ancient World
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.
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