PDF-(DOWNLOAD)-Ptolemy\'s Almagest

Ptolemys 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. In 150 A.D., Claudius Ptolemy applied a geometric model to the heavens. Spheres and perfect circles formed the basis of his hypothesis of the planetary movements in a geocentric cosmology. In the Ptolemy Project, Lee, Berkeley 2\n\n\n\n

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