Ptolemy's Ancient Planetary Observations.
The Almagest of Ptolemy (mid-second century ad) contains eleven dated reports of observations of the positions of planets made during the third century bc in Babylon and Hellenistic Egypt. The present paper investigates the character, purpose, and conventions of the observational programmes from whi...
| Publicado en: | Annals of Science Vol. 63; no. 3; pp. 255 - 291 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul2006
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