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The First Latin Treatise on Ptolemy's Astronomy

Author : Henry Zepeda
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503581378
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book The First Latin Treatise on Ptolemy's Astronomy written by Henry Zepeda and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Almagesti minor is one of the most important works of medieval astronomy. The Almagesti minor, probably written in northern France circa 1200, is a Latin summary of the first six books of Ptolemy's astronomical masterpiece, the Almagest. Also known to modern scholars as the Almagestum parvum, the Almagesti minor provides a clear example of how a medieval scholar understood Ptolemy's authoritative writing on cosmology, spherical astronomy, solar theory, lunar theory, and eclipses. The author incorporated the findings of astronomers of the Islamic world, such as al-Battāanīi, into the framework of Ptolemaic astronomy, and he altered the format and style of Ptolemy's astronomy in order to make it accord with the author's ideals of a mathematical science, which were primarily derived from Euclid's Elements. The Almagesti minor had a profound effect upon astronomical writing throughout the 13th-15th centuries, including the work of Georg Peurbach and Johannes Regiomontanus. In this first volume of the Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus series, Henry Zepeda offers not only a critical edition of this little-studied text, but also a translation of it into English, analysis of both the text and its geometrical figures, and a thorough study of the work's origins, sources, and long-lasting influence.

Ptolemy's Almagest

Author : Ptolemy
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691002606
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ptolemy's Almagest written by Ptolemy and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-08 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ptolemy's Almagest is one of the most influential scientific works in history. A masterpiece of technical exposition, it was the basic textbook of astronomy for more than a thousand years, and still is the main source for our knowledge of ancient astronomy. This translation, based on the standard Greek text of Heiberg, makes the work accessible to English readers in an intelligible and reliable form. It contains numerous corrections derived from medieval Arabic translations and extensive footnotes that take account of the great progress in understanding the work made in this century, due to the discovery of Babylonian records and other researches. 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.

The almagest

Author : Claudius Ptolemaeus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780852291634
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The almagest written by Claudius Ptolemaeus and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Eclipse and Revelation

Author : Henrike Lange
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192672711
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Eclipse and Revelation written by Henrike Lange and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two questions guide this seven-year project: First, how can we approach the phenomenon, representation, and interpretation of total solar eclipses? Second, how can we heal the historical divide separating the natural sciences from the humanities, arts, history, and theology? The result of this interdisciplinary investigation into eclipses is an exciting look behind the scenes - into labs, archives, and museums, as well as around fieldwork in astronomy, meteorology, animal behaviour, and ecophysiology. Carefully prepared for readers from all backgrounds, these voices invite us to imagine a liberated mode of discovery, perception, creativity, and knowledge-production across the traditional academic divisions. A uniquely prismatic representation of total solar eclipses emerges, itself rising to a model of communal thinking, together, across disciplinary borders. This book is Tom McLeish's final project and scholarly testament. Dedicated to him and to astrophysicist Jay M. Pasachoff (contributing author of a chapter about the solar corona, also Pasachoff's final piece of writing), the volume is a friendly companion to the chase of knowledge, encouraging its readers to embark upon their own interdisciplinary journey of discovery.

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

Author : Galileo
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 037575766X
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems written by Galileo and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2001-10-02 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, published in Florence in 1632, was the most proximate cause of his being brought to trial before the Inquisition. Using the dialogue form, a genre common in classical philosophical works, Galileo masterfully demonstrates the truth of the Copernican system over the Ptolemaic one, proving, for the first time, that the earth revolves around the sun. Its influence is incalculable. The Dialogue is not only one of the most important scientific treatises ever written, but a work of supreme clarity and accessibility, remaining as readable now as when it was first published. This edition uses the definitive text established by the University of California Press, in Stillman Drake’s translation, and includes a Foreword by Albert Einstein and a new Introduction by J. L. Heilbron.

The Book of Astronomy in Antiquity (Concise Edition)

Author : Ptolemy
Publisher : Flame Tree 451
ISBN 13 : 9781804177914
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (779 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Astronomy in Antiquity (Concise Edition) written by Ptolemy and published by Flame Tree 451. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ptolemy's work in ancient times laid the foundations for our modern understanding of the universe. Now in a digestible, pocket format for the modern reader. Ptolemy’s great astronomical work, which we know as The Almagest, brought together the ideas of Greek Antiquity, based on Aristotle some 400 years earlier, that the sun and planets revolved around the earth. This geocentric view which was inherited by Byzantine and Islamic scholars until Copernicus’ observations 1400 years later, placed the sun at the focal point of the solar system. For centuries Ptolemy’s methods were sufficient to predict solar and lunar eclipses and his work was translated into Latin in the 12th century, spreading its use across western Europe. This new, accessible edition brings the learning of the past to readers of today. The FLAME TREE Foundations series features core publications which together have shaped the cultural landscape of the modern world, with cutting-edge research distilled into pocket guides designed to be both accessible and informative.

The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science

Author : Seb Falk
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324002948
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science written by Seb Falk and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Book of 2020 by The Telegraph, The Times, and BBC History Magazine An illuminating guide to the scientific and technological achievements of the Middle Ages through the life of a crusading astronomer-monk. "Falk’s bubbling curiosity and strong sense of storytelling always swept me along. By the end, The Light Ages didn’t just broaden my conception of science; even as I scrolled away on my Kindle, it felt like I was sitting alongside Westwyk at St. Albans abbey, leafing through dusty manuscripts by candlelight." —Alex Orlando, Discover Soaring Gothic cathedrals, violent crusades, the Black Death: these are the dramatic forces that shaped the medieval era. But the so-called Dark Ages also gave us the first universities, eyeglasses, and mechanical clocks. As medieval thinkers sought to understand the world around them, from the passing of the seasons to the stars in the sky, they came to develop a vibrant scientific culture. In The Light Ages, Cambridge science historian Seb Falk takes us on a tour of medieval science through the eyes of one fourteenth-century monk, John of Westwyk. Born in a rural manor, educated in England’s grandest monastery, and then exiled to a clifftop priory, Westwyk was an intrepid crusader, inventor, and astrologer. From multiplying Roman numerals to navigating by the stars, curing disease, and telling time with an ancient astrolabe, we learn emerging science alongside Westwyk and travel with him through the length and breadth of England and beyond its shores. On our way, we encounter a remarkable cast of characters: the clock-building English abbot with leprosy, the French craftsman-turned-spy, and the Persian polymath who founded the world’s most advanced observatory. The Light Ages offers a gripping story of the struggles and successes of an ordinary man in a precarious world and conjures a vivid picture of medieval life as we have never seen it before. An enlightening history that argues that these times weren’t so dark after all, The Light Ages shows how medieval ideas continue to color how we see the world today.

Manuscripts and Performances in Religions, Arts, and Sciences

Author : Antonella Brita, Janina Karolewski, Matthieu Husson, Laure Miolo, Hanna Wimmer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311134388X
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Manuscripts and Performances in Religions, Arts, and Sciences written by Antonella Brita, Janina Karolewski, Matthieu Husson, Laure Miolo, Hanna Wimmer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-04 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Leonardo's Library

Author : Paula Findlen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780911221633
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book Leonardo's Library written by Paula Findlen and published by . This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition "Leonardo's Library: The World of a Renaissance Reader," Stanford University Libraries, Green Library, May 2 - October 13, 2019.

Supersapientia: Berthold of Moosburg and the Divine Science of the Platonists

Author : Evan King
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004465480
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Supersapientia: Berthold of Moosburg and the Divine Science of the Platonists written by Evan King and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the motivations and doctrinal coherence of the Commentary on the Elements of Theology of Proclus written by Berthold of Moosburg, O.P. († c. 1361/1363). It provides an overview of Berthold’s biography and intellectual contexts, his manuscript remains, and a partial edition of his annotations on Macrobius and Proclus. Through a close analysis of the three prefaces to the Commentary, giving special attention to Berthold’s sources, it traces the Dominican's elaboration of Platonism as a soteriological science. The content of this science is then presented in a systematic reconstruction of Berthold’s cosmology and anthropology. The volume includes an English translation of the three fundamental prefaces of the Commentary. The publication of this volume has received the generous support of the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme through the ERC Consolidator Grant NeoplAT: A Comparative Analysis of the Middle East, Byzantium and the Latin West (9th-16th Centuries), grant agreement No 771640 (www.neoplat.eu). "This is, indeed, a precious insight into the spirit of Berthold’s philosophical thinking. Overall, the monograph’s ambition seems to be both to represent a starting point for new readers interested in Berthold, and to stress the philosophical value of the Commentary: both goals are most certainly reached." -Giuseppe Thomas Vitale, Thomas-Institut der Universität zu Köln, Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales 89.2

Ptolemy's First Commentator

Author : Alexander Jones
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871698070
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Ptolemy's First Commentator written by Alexander Jones and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1990 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Studies in the History of Mediaeval Science

Author : Charles Homer Haskins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in the History of Mediaeval Science written by Charles Homer Haskins and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Quantifying Aristotle

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004512055
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Quantifying Aristotle written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an entirely new perspective on the alleged incompatibility between Aristotelian philosophy and the mathematical methods and principles that form the basis of modern science. It surveys the tradition of the Oxford Calculators from its beginnings in the fourteenth century until Leibniz and the philosophy of the seventeenth century and explores how their various techniques of quantification expanded the conceptual and methodological limits of Aristotelianism.

Geography of Claudius Ptolemy

Author : Claudius Ptolemy
Publisher : Cosimo Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781605204383
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Geography of Claudius Ptolemy written by Claudius Ptolemy and published by Cosimo Classics. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geography of Claudius Ptolemy, originally titled Geographia and written in the second century, is a depiction of the geography of the Roman Empire at the time. Though inaccurate due to Ptolemy's varying methods of measurement and use of outdated data, Geography of Claudius Ptolemy is nonetheless an excellent example of ancient geographical study and scientific method. This edition contains more than 40 maps and illustrations, reproduced based on Ptolemy's original manuscript. It remains a fascinating read for students of scientific history and Greek influence. CLAUDIUS PTOLEMY (A.D. 90- A.D. 168) was a poet, mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, and geographer who wrote in Greek, though he was a Roman citizen. He is most well-known for three scientific treatises he wrote on astronomy, astrology, and geography, respectively titled Almagest, Apotelesmatika, and Geographia. His work influenced early Islamic and European studies, which in turn influenced much of the modern world. Ptolemy died in Alexandria as a member of Greek society.

Studies in the Making of Islamic Science: Knowledge in Motion

Author : Muzaffar Iqbal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351897268
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Studies in the Making of Islamic Science: Knowledge in Motion written by Muzaffar Iqbal and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated between the Greek, Indian and Persian scientific traditions and modern science, the Islamic scientific tradition received, enriched, transformed and then bequeathed scientific knowledge to Europe. The articles selected for this volume explore the fascinating process of knowledge in motion between different civilizations.

On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres

Author : Nicolaus Copernicus
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 161592082X
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)

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Book Synopsis On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres by : Nicolaus Copernicus

Download or read book On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres written by Nicolaus Copernicus and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-08-27 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ptolemaic system of the universe, with the earth at the center, had held sway since antiquity as authoritative in philosophy, science, and church teaching. Following his observations of the heavenly bodies, Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) abandoned the geocentric system for a heliocentric model, with the sun at the center. His remarkable work, On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres, stands as one of the greatest intellectual revolutions of all time, and profoundly influenced, among others, Galileo and Sir Isaac Newton.

Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science

Author : Roshdi Rashed
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134977247
Total Pages : 1135 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science written by Roshdi Rashed and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 1135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arabic contribution is fundamental to the history of science, mathematics and technology, but until now no single publication has offered an up-to-date synthesis of knowledge in this area. In three fully-illustrated volumes the Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science documents the history and philosophy of Arabic science from the earliest times to the present day. The set as a whole covers seven centuries. Thirty chapters, written by an international team of specialists from Europe, America, the Middle East and Russia cover such areas as astronomy, mathematics, music, engineering, nautical science and scientific institutions.