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Ptolemy's Almagest - Ptolemy, Owen Gingerich, G.J. Toomer, Theon of Alexandria, Hypatia of Alexandria
Ptolemy's Almagest
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Whatever we now understand of Ptolemy ... is in this book.—Noel Swerdlow, University of Chicago
Whatever we now understand of Ptolemy ... is in this book.—Noel Swerdlow, University of Chicago
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780691002606 (0691002606)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Pages no: 693
Edition language: English
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Classics, Non Fiction, History, Science, Physics, Philosophy, Astronomy, Mathematics
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I can’t rate this book. Quite frankly, I didn’t understand most of it. The Almagest, a transliteration of the Arabic title meaning “The Greatest”, was the standard for astronomical calculations for over 1000 years. Written in Hellenistic Egypt around 150 AD by Claudius Ptolemaeus (not to be confu...
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