دانلود کتاب Ptolemy in perspective: use and criticism of his work from antiquity to the nineteenth Century

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Front Matter....Pages I-XV
An Unpublished Astronomical Papyrus Contemporary with Ptolemy....Pages 1-10
Ancient Rejection and Adoption of Ptolemy’s Frame of Reference for Longitudes....Pages 11-44
Ptolemy’s Doctrine of the Terms and Its Reception....Pages 45-93
The Tradition of Texts and Maps in Ptolemy’s Geography ....Pages 95-119
Islamic Reactions to Ptolemy’s Imprecisions....Pages 121-134
The Use and Abuse of Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe: Two Case Studies (Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Filippo Fantoni)....Pages 135-149
Tycho, Longomontanus, and Kepler on Ptolemy’s Solar Observations and Theory, Precession of the Equinoxes, and Obliquity of the Ecliptic....Pages 151-202
Dunthorne, Mayer, and Lalande on the Secular Acceleration of the Moon....Pages 203-215
Back Matter....Pages 217-229