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| #367970 in Books | Princeton University Press | 1998-10-19 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.21 x1.42 x6.14l,2.20 | File type: PDF | 712 pages | ||23 of 23 people found the following review helpful.| A magnificent start for the empirical sciences|By Veli-Pekka Ranta|Before buying Ptolemy’s Almagest (written around A.D. 150) I knew of its reputation as a highly technical and difficult text on Greek geocentric astronomy. Still, the extremely thorough treatment by Ptolemy with all its details surprised me, and I really admire the achievements by Ptolemy and his ancesto
Ptolemy's Almagest is one of the most influential scientific works in history. A masterpiece of technical exposition, it was the basic textbook of astronomy for more than a thousand years, and still is the main source for our knowledge of ancient astronomy. This translation, based on the standard Greek text of Heiberg, makes the work accessible to English readers in an intelligible and reliable form. It contains numerous corrections derived from medieval Arabic...
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