ISBN:
9789048127887
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9789048127870
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (digital)
Edition:
1
Series Statement:
Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology 23
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Ptolemy in perspective
Keywords:
Science History
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Geographical information systems
;
Humanities
;
History
;
Science, general
;
Geographical information systems
;
History
;
Humanities
;
Science History
;
Ptolemaeus, Claudius 100-178
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Rezeption
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Geschichte 100-1900
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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. This book traces reactions to Ptolemy from his own times to ours
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS; An Unpublished Astronomical Papyrus Contemporary with Ptolemy; Ancient Rejection and Adoption of Ptolemy's Frame of Reference for Longitudes; Ptolemy's Doctrine of the Terms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
Description / Table of Contents:
Bibliography
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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Volume gathers most of the papers presented at the Caltech conference "Ptolemy in Perspective", held at The Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology, May 31 through June 2, 2007
DOI:
10.1007/978-90-481-2788-7
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