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Extracts from Ptolemy's Almagest and other works, and from the Greek commentators on the Almagest (v.3)

  • Original object type: Artefact
  • Title: Extracts from Ptolemy's Almagest and other works, and from the Greek commentators on the Almagest (v.3)
  • Description:

    Volume 1 contains extracts from Ptolemy Mathematike Syntaxis (the Almagest), together with two other short works on astronomy by Ptolemy (c. 2 AD), and extracts from the commentary on the Mathematike Syntaxis by Theon of Alexandria (c. 4 AD). Volume 2 contains an astronomical treatise in 38 chapters. The chapter headings suggest that it is a compendium of Ptolemaic astronomy. Volume 3 contains a compilation of astrological and astronomical extracts. It includes material from the introduction to Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos by Porphyry (c. 3 AD), epitomes of the Apotelesmatica of Hephaestion of Thebes (c. 4 AD), and the commentary on Paul of Alexandria (c. 4 AD) attributed to 'Heliodorus'. There is also anonymous material, and an (unpublished?) work by the Byzantine mathematician Nicolaus Artabasdos Rhabdas (c. 14 AD).

  • Date range: [14--? ]
  • Date: 1449
  • Depositing User: - libemu
  • Date Deposited: 13 Feb 2017 23:06
  • Last Modified: 13 Feb 2017 23:23