ALMAGESTの語源
From Old French, from Arabic al-majisti, from al the + majisti, from Greek megistē greatest (treatise).
«ALMAGEST»に関連する英語の本
以下の図書目録から
Almagestの使いかたを見つけましょう。
Almagestに関する本と英語文献で使われた文脈を提供するための簡単な抜粋文。
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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A Survey of the
Almagest: With Annotation and New Commentary ...
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."--Publisher's description.
Alexander Jones, Olaf Pedersen,
2010
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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Geometrical and Statistical Methods of Analysis of Star ...
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 Enterprise of Science in Islam: New Perspectives
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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Empirico-Statistical Analysis of Narrative Material and its ...
W. Astronomical and Mathematical Analysis of the Almagest 9.1. Morozov's
analysis of the first medieval editions of the Almagest The basics of traditional
chronology were established by analyzing written sources. If we reconsider the
datings, ...
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The Measurement of Starlight: Two Centuries of Astronomical ...
1.1 Classical stellar magnitudes The earliest record to give quantitative
information on the brightness of the stars is in Books VII and VIII of the Almagest
by Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy) (c. AD 100 - c. AD 170). The star catalogue of
the ...
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The History of Ptolemy’s Star Catalogue
1.2 The Arabic Revision of the Almagest During the time between its composition
and the beginning of the 16th century the Almagest strengthened its unique
position as the standard work of astronomy, especially through scientific activity
in ...
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Science in the Middle Ages
After locating Aristippus near Mount Etna (investigating its volcanic eruptions),
our translator discovered that he was not yet equipped to undertake a translation
of the Almagest and set out to prepare himself by studying (or possibly by ...
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Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance
was written after the Almagest, Ibn al-Haitham then took advantage of that
chronology, and seized the opportunity to compare Ptolemy's thinking about the
subject at two different stages of his scientific career and in two different works.