Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Titre(s) : Ptolemy in perspective [Texte électronique] : use and criticism of his work from antiquity to the nineteenth century / Alexander Jones [editor]
Publication : Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, cop. 2010
Description matérielle : 1 ressource dématérialisée
Collection : Archimedes ; v. 23
Note(s) : Volume gathers most of the papers presented at the Caltech conference "Ptolemy in
Perspective", held at The Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at the California
Institute of Technology, May 31 through June 2, 2007. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-229)
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Jones, Alexander (1960-....). Fonction indéterminée
Caltech conference "Ptolemy in Perspective" (2007 ; Pasadena). Fonction indéterminée
Sujet(s) : Ptolémée, Claude (0100?-0170?) -- Critique et interprétation
Ptolemy (active 2nd century.)
Ptolemaeus, Claudius (100-178.)
Ptolemaeus, Claudius
Indice(s) Dewey :
500 (23e éd.) = Sciences naturelles et mathématiques
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9789048127887
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb447197503
Notice n° :
FRBNF44719750
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : An unplublished astronomical papyrus contemporary with Ptolemy /Anne Tihon ; Ancient
rejection and adoption of Ptolemy's frame of reference for longitudes /Alexander Jones
; Ptolemy's doctrine of the terms and its reception /Stephan Heilen ; The tradition
of texts and maps in Ptolemy's Geography /Florian Mittenhuber ; Islamic reactions
to Ptolemy's imprecisions /F. Jamil Ragep ; The use and abuse of Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos
in Renaissance and early modern Europe : ; two case studies (Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
and Filippo Fantoni) /H. Darrel Rutkin ; Tycho, Longomontanus, and Kepler on Ptolemy's
solar observations and theory, precession of the equinoxes, and obliquity of the ecliptic
/N.M. Swedlow ; Dunthorne, Mayer, and Lalande on the secular acceleration of the moon
/J.M. Steele