Ptolemy in Perspective: Use and Criticism of his Work from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
Author:   Alexander Jones
Publisher:   Springer
Edition:   2010 ed.
Volume:   23
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9789048127870


Pages:   229
Publication Date:   26 November 2009
Format:   Hardback
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Ptolemy in Perspective: Use and Criticism of his Work from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century


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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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Author:   Alexander Jones
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   2010 ed.
Volume:   23
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.160kg
ISBN:  

9789048127870


ISBN 10:   9048127874
Pages:   229
Publication Date:   26 November 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD   Availability explained
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An Unpublished Astronomical Papyrus Contemporary with Ptolemy.- Ancient Rejection and Adoption of Ptolemy’s Frame of Reference for Longitudes.- Ptolemy’s Doctrine of the Terms and Its Reception.- The Tradition of Texts and Maps in Ptolemy’s Geography.- Islamic Reactions to Ptolemy’s Imprecisions.- The Use and Abuse of Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe: Two Case Studies (Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Filippo Fantoni).- Tycho, Longomontanus, and Kepler on Ptolemy’s Solar Observations and Theory, Precession of the Equinoxes, and Obliquity of the Ecliptic.- Dunthorne, Mayer, and Lalande on the Secular Acceleration of the Moon.

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