Ptolemy in Perspective (Record no. 113220)

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International Standard Book Number 9789048127887
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Standard number or code 10.1007/978-90-481-2788-7
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Subject category code SCI034000
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Classification number 509
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Jones, Alexander.
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Title Ptolemy in Perspective
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Remainder of title Use and Criticism of his Work from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century /
Statement of responsibility, etc edited by Alexander Jones.
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Edition statement 1.
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Series statement Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology,
International Standard Serial Number 1385-0180 ;
Volume number/sequential designation 23
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Formatted contents note An Unpublished Astronomical Papyrus Contemporary with Ptolemy -- Ancient Rejection and Adoption of Ptolemy’s Frame of Reference for Longitudes -- Ptolemy’s Doctrine of the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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Summary, etc 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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Title Springer eBooks
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Display text Printed edition:
International Standard Book Number 9789048127870
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Uniform title Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology,
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