Claudius Ptolemy, who lived in the second century C.E., wrote the extremely influential treatise that came to be called the "Almagest" in about 150 C.E. .

Ptolemy, Claudius. Almagest translation by R. Catesby Taliaferro published in Great Books of the Western World, vol. 16 (1952). Ptolemy, Claudius. .

DO NOT CONFUSE THEM WITH CLAUDIUS PTOLEMY! Almagest. Ptolemy's first work, also his main work, was the Almagest. This work was originally known in Greek as .

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Reading Questions: Claudius Ptolemy, Almagest I, 3-4, 6-7. (Questions for reflection, which cannot necessarily be answered simply by reading the text but .

Feb 6, 2010 . Greek manuscript of Ptolemy's Almagest in the Vatican Library. . His name, Claudius Ptolemy, combines a mix of the Greek Egyptian .

What is 2 facts about Claudius Ptolemy? ptolemy was accused of playgerizing the theories of Hipparchus, and also he called his book "almagest" the Syntaxis, .

Hipparchus (Astronomer): Claudius Ptolemy. built 1164 days ago . and On the Length of the Year, are both mentioned in the Almagest of Claudius Ptolemy. .

Aug 1, 2003 . Claudius Ptolemy was one of the most influential Greek astronomers and geographers of . Ptolemy's Almagest, along with Euclid's Elements, .

Ptolemy, Claudius. Almagestu[m]. Venice, 1515. . and it first appeared in print in this edition of Ptolemy's authoritative Almagest, the basic ancient .

As with the model of the solar system in the Almagest, Ptolemy put all this . The mathematician Claudius Ptolemy 'the Alexandrian' as imagined by a 16th .

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Jun 6, 2009 . The astronomer Claudius Ptolemy. Sculpture in the Münster of Ulm by . . Certain parameters in Ptolemy's Almagest, such as the obliquity of .

In his book, The Crime of Claudius Ptolemy (Baltimore and London: The Johns . recorded in Ptolemy's Almagest dating from the first and second years of the .

Claudius Ptolemy was one of the most influential Greek astronomers, geographers and mathematicians of all time, known best for his Almagest and Geography. .

Ptolemy: Claudius Ptolemy (circa 100--175 CE) . G.J. Toomer's translation of Ptolemy's Almagest Just the reference. .

almagest. late 14c., treatise on astronomy by Claudius Ptolemy of Alexandria, extended in M.E. to other works on astrology or astronomy, .

Almagest (work by Ptolemy), astronomical manual written about ad 150 by Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus of Alexandria). It served as the basic guide for .

At Alexandria Ptolemy Writes the Almagest, the Cosmographia, . astronomer, geographer, and astrologer Claudius Ptolemaeus (Greek: Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαίος .

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Ptolemy's "Almagest is one of the most influential scientific works in history. A masterpiece of technical exposition, it was the basic textbook of .

This theory was represented well by Claudius Ptolemy. Claudius Ptolemy's work commonly known as the Almagest was actually called "Mathematical Systematic .

Book I of Mathematical Syntaxis, or Almagest (based on observations made from 127-151 CE) by Claudius Ptolemy (2nd c CE); .

The Almagest of Claudius Ptolemy was the dominant work in astronomy for over a thousand years until the publication of Copernicus's De revolutionibus in .

The last of the great astronomers of antiquity, Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy) . . A translation of Ptolemy's Almagest was done by R. Catesby Taliaferro in .

Ptolemy makes no reference in the Almagest to the more modern version of the . .. Newton, R.R., The Crime of Claudius Ptolemy (Johns Hopkins University .

Oct 26, 2008 . Ptolemy (aka Claudius Ptolemaeus, Ptolomaeus, . This is described in the book Mathematical Syntaxis (widely called the Almagest), .

Claudius Ptolemy. Source: The Almagest1: I-V, in Great Books of the Western World, vol. 15, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952, pp.5-7, 14-24. .

The author of Almagest was Claudius Ptolemaeus who lived in the city of Alexandria, . Ptolemy was a great collector and compiler of information. .

Aug 4, 2003 . It is in the work of Claudius Ptolemy, who lived in the second century . The best translation of the Almagest is Ptolemy's Almagest, tr. .

Claudius Ptolemy lived in Alexandria, in Egypt, in the middle of the second . Almagest is a transliteration of the name given to the work when it was .

Mar 30, 2011 . The Almagest of Claudius Ptolemy is often unfairly disparaged by modern commentators for a number of supposed failings. .

Works of Claudius Ptolemy together with commentators on his works (Preliminary version). Dennis Duke, The Measurement Method of the Almagest Stars .

Ptolemy, Almagest. In Greek, Ninth century. Claudius Ptolemy, who lived in the second century A.D., did work of enormous importance in astronomy and .

The Almagest of Claudius Ptolemy was the dominant work in astronomy for over a thousand years until the publication of Copernicus's De revolutionibus in .

Claudius Ptolamaeus or Ptolemy, facts reveal an ancient Roman astronomer who lived in Egypt. Ptolemy Almagest was the astronomical text used . .

There are lots of detected anomalies in the works of Claudius Ptolemy, . of the problem: the stellar catalog in the Almagest of Claudius Ptolemaeus. .

The Almagest, by Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaus), translated by R. Catesby Taliaferro; On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, by Nicolaus Copernicus, .

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This was the Almagest of Claudius Ptolemy. Why was just one book so influential and so dominant that it took so long to be surpassed? 1.2 Ptolemy .

The second treatise, the Almagest of Claudius Ptolemy, is an attempt to find a simple geometric explanation for the apparent motions of the sun, the moon, .

Forty eight of the constellations we know were recorded in the seventh and eighth books of Claudius Ptolemy's Almagest written in about 140 AD, although the .

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Almagest, astronomical manual written about ad 150 by Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus of Alexandria). It served as the basic guide for Islamic and European .

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(2nd century ad), ( Claudius Ptolemaeus ), Almagest . Use is made of Ptolemy's Theorem, from which the familiar addition formulae of trigonometry can be .

His name, Claudius Ptolemy, is of course a mixture of the Greek Egyptian . Ptolemy's "Almagest" shares with Euclid's "Elements" the glory of being the .

The Almagest of Claudius Ptolemy was the dominant work in astronomy for over a thousand years until the publication of Copernicus's De revolutionibus in .

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