The significance of Ptolemy’s Almagest for its early readers

Abstract The paper explores the historical reasons why Ptolemy’s Almagest was cultivated in Antiquity as a legitimate part of ancient culture. It tries to elucidate first the precise nature of Ptolemy’s project in the Almagest, its relation to ethics as well as to the particular conception that Ptol...

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Veröffentlicht in:Revue de synthèse. - Springer-Verlag, 1931. - 131(2010), 4 vom: Dez., Seite 495-521
1. Verfasser: Bernard, Alain (VerfasserIn)
Format: Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2010
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Revue de synthèse
Schlagworte:Antiquity astronomy mathematics history philosophy
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