Ptolemy in perspective : use and criticism of his work from antiquity to the nineteenth century
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Ptolemy in perspective : use and criticism of his work from antiquity to the nineteenth century
（Archimedes : new studies in the history and philosophy of science and technology, v. 23）
Springer, c2010
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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
Bibliography: p. 217-229
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Description
Ptolemy was the most important physical scientist of the Roman Empire, and for a millennium and a half his writings on astronomy, astrology, and geography were models for imitation, resources for new work, and targets of criticism. Ptolemy in Perspective traces reactions to Ptolemy from his own times to ours. The nine studies show the complex processes by which an ancient scientist and his work gained and subsequently lost an overreaching reputation and authority.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Anne Tihon
An unpublished astronomical papyrus contemporary with Ptolemy
Alexander Jones
Ancient rejection and Adoption of Ptolemy's Frame of Reference for Longitudes
Stephan Heilen
Ptolemy's doctrine of the Terms and its reception
Florian Mittenhuber
The tradition of texts and maps in Ptolemy's Geography
F. Jamil Ragep
Islamic reactions to Ptolemy's imprecisions
H. Darrel Rutkin
The use and abuse of Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos in Renaissance and early modern Europe: two case studies (Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Filippo Fantoni)
N. M. Swerdlow
Tycho, Longomontanus, and Kepler on Ptolemy's solar observations and theory, precession of the equinoxes, and obliquity of the ecliptic
John M. Steele
Dunthorne, Mayer, and Lalande on the secular acceleration of the moon
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