10 POLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ALMAGEST»
Discover the use of
almagest in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
almagest and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in Polish literature.
This translation, based on the standard Greek text of Heiberg, makes the work accessible to English readers in an intelligible and reliable form.
Ptolemy, G. J. Toomer, 1984
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A Survey of the Almagest: With Annotation and New ...
This volume is intended to provide students of the history of astronomy with a self-contained introduction to the Almagest, helping them to understand and appreciate Ptolemy's great and classical work.
Alexander Jones, Olaf Pedersen, 2010
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. "Whatever we now understand of Ptolemy ... is in this book."--Noel Swerdlow, University of Chicago
Ptolemy, G. J. Toomer, 1998
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Geometrical and Statistical Methods of Analysis of Star ... - Strona 60
should we "know" that the Almagest had been compiled in 1000 BC, we would identify a2 Eri with the star 778 of the Almagest, and then date the Almagest from the minimal possible distance between the two stars, getting 1000 BC as the date.
A.T. Fomenko, Vladimir V. Kalashnikov, Gleb V. Nosovsky, 1993
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The History of Ptolemy’s Star Catalogue
Ptolemy's Almagest shares with Euclid's Elements the glory of being the scientific text longest in use. From its conception in the second century up to the late Renaissance, this work determined astronomy as a science.
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Almagest: The Adventures of Marsshield
A major surprise awaits you in this follow-up to "The Last Voyage of the Cassiopeia".
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The Almagest: Introduction to the Mathematics of the Heavens
This edition is designed to provide everything needed for a one-semester course, or it can be a component of a more general course on planetary theory or history of astronomy."
Claudius Ptolemy, William H. Donahue, 2014
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The Enterprise of Science in Islam: New Perspectives - Strona 23
The texts under consideration here are a translation of Ptolemy's Almagest, known as the "Dresden Almagest," a Latin cosmology describing the Ptolemaic system, called the Liber Mamonis, and a version of the astronomical tables of al-Sufi.
J. P. Hogendijk, A. I. Sabra, 2003
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Astronomy Books: Ephemeris, Almagest, Dudley Leavitt, ...
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Source Wikipedia, LLC Books, 2010
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Ptolemy's Cataloque of Stars; A Revision of the Almagest ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters, 2nd Cent Ptolemy, E B B 1841 Knobel, 2015
