The Almagest
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A Survey Of The Almagest
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Author : Olaf Pedersen
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2010-11-12
A Survey Of The Almagest written by Olaf Pedersen and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-12 with Mathematics categories.
The Almagest, by the Greek astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy, is the most important surviving treatise on early mathematical astronomy, offering historians valuable insight into the astronomy and mathematics of the ancient world. Pedersen's 1974 publication, A Survey of the Almagest, is the most recent in a long tradition of companions to the Almagest. Part paraphrase and part commentary, Pedersen's work has earned the universal praise of historians and serves as the definitive introductory text for students interested in studying the Almagest. In this revised edition, Alexander Jones, a distinguished authority on the history of early astronomy, provides supplementary information and commentary to the original text to account for scholarship that has appeared since 1974. This revision also incorporates various corrections to Pedersen's original text that have been identified since its publication. 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.
Ptolemy S Almagest
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Author : Ptolemy
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1998-11-08
Ptolemy S Almagest written by Ptolemy and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-11-08 with Science categories.
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
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-05-01
The Almagest written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-01 with categories.
The fist hit the priest's midsection hard, knocking the wind out of him. His knees buckled and he crumpled to the floor just as the man's knee smashed into his face. The old priest's glasses flew across the room and skittered under a table. The priest's nose and mouth exploded blood. The man pinned the priest to the floor and rained down blows until the priest's face was a bloody pulp."Now, where's my spell book?" the scar-faced man taunted. Gabriel Prince, a graduate student who shares a name with the young Bosnian who launched World War I, finds himself on the precipice of a war of his own. When the grandfather he never met dies, Gabriel is bequeathed the old man's only treasure: a secret map to the Gates of Hell. Gabriel quickly discovers that the servants of Hell seek that map - and him, too. With a stolen key to unlock the gate, dark shadows chase Gabriel around the world to steal his map and find the gate. Rescued from a vicious, self-mutilating demon-possessed killer by a secret society of Christians, Muslims, and Jews, including a mysterious Tatar beauty, Gabriel must face his fears and discover his faith if he's to join them. Can the unfaithful Gabriel protect our world from a demonic invasion?The Almagest is a fast-moving, richly researched thriller like The Da Vinci Code reimagined in the spirit of C.S. Lewis. The author, Dina Gallyamov, hails from Tatarstan and is now a doctoral candidate in America.
Geometrical And Statistical Methods Of Analysis Of Star Configurations Dating Ptolemy S Almagest
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Author : A.T. Fomenko
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2018-01-31
Geometrical And Statistical Methods Of Analysis Of Star Configurations Dating Ptolemy S Almagest written by A.T. Fomenko and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-31 with Mathematics categories.
This easy-to-follow book offers a statistico-geometrical approach for dating ancient star catalogs. The authors' scientific methods reveal statistical properties of ancient catalogs and overcome the difficulties of their dating originated by the low accuracy of these catalogs. Methods are tested on reliably dated medieval star catalogs and applied to the star catalog of the Almagest. Here, the dating of Ptolemy's famous star catalog is reconsidered and recalculated using modern mathematical techniques.The text provides necessary information from astronomy and astrometry. It also covers the history of observational equipment and methods for measuring coordinates of stars. Many chapters are devoted to the Almagest, from a preliminary analysis to a global statistical processing of the catalog and its basic parts. Mathematics are simplified in this book for easy reading. This book will prove invaluable for mathematicians, astronomers, astrophysicists, specialists in natural sciences, historians interested in mathematical and statistical methods, and second-year mathematics students.Features:
The Almagest
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Author : Claudius Ptolemy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
The Almagest written by Claudius Ptolemy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Science categories.
The Almagest is by far the greatest work in astronomy in ancient times. In a massive series of thirteen books, Ptolemy shows how every detail of the motions of the sun, moon, planets, and stars can be expressed using geometrical models that can be used to compute celestial positions with remarkable accuracy The present selection covers all the essential features of Ptolemy s treatment of the heavens, omitting only more difficult and abstruse matters such as the moon s motion and the calculation of eclipses. In the interest of conciseness, development of planetary theories is restricted to two planets, one inferior (Venus) and one superior (Mars). Ptolemy s text is accompanied by extensive notes and introductions that are aimed at making the book accessible to students encountering Ptolemy for the first time. 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."
The Dream Of The West Pt Ii
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Author : Brian Lasater
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2008
The Dream Of The West Pt Ii written by Brian Lasater and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
This volume looks at the ancient heritage of Greek philosophy and Mesopotamian astronomy and examines the history of map-making, coastal and celestial navigation and astronomy from 1487-1727.
Islamic Science And The Making Of The European Renaissance
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Author : George Saliba
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2007
Islamic Science And The Making Of The European Renaissance written by George Saliba and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Civilization, Western categories.
The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and general histories of science, with most authors tracing its beginnings to the appropriation of ideas from other ancient civilizations--the Greeks in particular. In this thought-provoking and original book, George Saliba argues that, contrary to the generally accepted view, the foundations of Islamic scientific thought were laid well before Greek sources were formally translated into Arabic in the ninth century. Drawing on an account by the tenth-century intellectual historian Ibn al-Nadim [macron over i] that is ignored by most modern scholars, Saliba suggests that early translations from mainly Persian and Greek sources outlining elementary scientific ideas for the use of government departments were the impetus for the development of the Islamic scientific tradition. He argues further that there was an organic relationship between the Islamic scientific thought that developed in later centuries and the science that came into being in Europe during the Renaissance. Saliba outlines the conventional accounts of Islamic science, then discusses their shortcomings and proposes an alternate narrative. Using astronomy as a template for understanding the progress of science in Islamic civilization, Saliba demonstrates the originality of Islamic scientific thought. He details the innovations (including new mathematical tools) made by the Islamic astronomers from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries, and offers evidence that Copernicus could have known of and drawn on their work. Rather than viewing the rise and fall of Islamic science from the often-narrated perspectives of politics and religion, Saliba focuses on the scientific production itself and the complex social, economic, and intellectual conditions that made it possible.
Ptolemy S Philosophy
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Author : Jacqueline Feke
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2018-10-16
Ptolemy S Philosophy written by Jacqueline Feke and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-16 with Science categories.
The Greco-Roman mathematician Claudius Ptolemy is one of the most significant figures in the history of science. He is remembered today for his astronomy, but his philosophy is almost entirely lost to history. This groundbreaking book is the first to reconstruct Ptolemy’s general philosophical system—including his metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics—and to explore its relationship to astronomy, harmonics, element theory, astrology, cosmology, psychology, and theology. In this stimulating intellectual history, Jacqueline Feke uncovers references to a complex and sophisticated philosophical agenda scattered among Ptolemy’s technical studies in the physical and mathematical sciences. She shows how he developed a philosophy that was radical and even subversive, appropriating ideas and turning them against the very philosophers from whom he drew influence. Feke reveals how Ptolemy’s unique system is at once a critique of prevailing philosophical trends and a conception of the world in which mathematics reigns supreme. A compelling work of scholarship, Ptolemy’s Philosophy demonstrates how Ptolemy situated mathematics at the very foundation of all philosophy—theoretical and practical—and advanced the mathematical way of life as the true path to human perfection.
Scientific Sources And Teaching Contexts Throughout History Problems And Perspectives
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Author : Alain Bernard
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-11-26
Scientific Sources And Teaching Contexts Throughout History Problems And Perspectives written by Alain Bernard and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-26 with Science categories.
This book examines the textual, social, cultural, practical and institutional environments to which the expression “teaching and learning contexts” refers. It reflects on the extent to which studying such environments helps us to better understand ancient or modern sources, and how notions of “teaching” and “learning” are to be understood. Tackling two problems: the first, is that of certain sources of scientific knowledge being studied without taking into account the various “contexts” of transmission that gave this knowledge a long-lasting meaning. The second is that other sources are related to teaching and learning activities, but without being too precise and demonstrative about the existence and nature of this “teaching context”. In other words, this book makes clear what is meant by “context” and highlights the complexity of the practice hidden by the words “teaching” and “learning”. Divided into three parts, the book makes accessible teaching and learning situations, presents comparatist approaches, and emphasizes the notion of teaching as projects embedded in coherent treatises or productions.
Transactions Of The Academy Of Science Of Saint Louis
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Author : Academy of Science of St. Louis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886
Transactions Of The Academy Of Science Of Saint Louis written by Academy of Science of St. Louis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1886 with Science categories.
List of members in each volume, except v. 5.