Claudii Ptolemaei opera quae exstant omnia by Ptolemy

Claudii Ptolemaei opera quae exstant omnia by Ptolemy

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Published 1898–1907, this three-part collection, edited by the Danish philologist Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1854–1928), contains the extant astronomical works in Greek of Ptolemy, active in second-century Alexandria. Volume 1 appeared in two parts. Part 1 (1898) contains Books 1-6 of Ptolemy's major astronomical treatise, the Almagest.

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Claudii Ptolemaei opera quae exstant omnia by Ptolemy

Best known for his 1906 discovery of lost texts in the Archimedes Palimpsest, Danish scholar Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1854 1928), professor of classical philology at Copenhagen, published numerous editions of ancient mathematicians, including Archimedes and Apollonius of Perga (also reissued in this series). Between 1898 and 1907, he published in three parts the extant astronomical works of Ptolemy, active in second-century Alexandria. The Ptolemaic system, his geocentric model of the universe, prevailed in the Islamic world and in medieval Europe until the time of Copernicus. Volume 2, published in 1907, contains a brief preface and a substantial prolegomena in Latin, followed by the Greek text of Ptolemy's shorter astronomical works, including Phaeis aplanon asteron, a treatise on the phenomena of the fixed stars, and Hypotheseis ton planomenon, his planetary hypotheses representing the most influential statement of his geocentric model, provided here with a facing-page translation into German.
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ISBN 13 9781108063647
ISBN 10 1108063640
Titre Claudii Ptolemaei opera quae exstant omnia
Auteur Ptolemy
Série Cambridge Library Collection - Classics
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Type de reliure Paperback
Éditeur Cambridge University Press
Année de publication 2013-11-21
Nombre de pages 558
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