Availability:In StockContributor:Ptolemy, G. J. Toomer (Editor), G. J. Toomer (Translator)Publish date:1998-11-08Pages:712
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691002606ISBN-10:691002606UPC:9780691002606Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Space ScienceBook Topic:AstronomySize:9.29 x 6.11 x 1.24 inchesWeight:2.2024Product ID:SCY3JQGY10
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691002606ISBN-10:691002606UPC:9780691002606Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Space ScienceBook Topic:AstronomySize:9.29 x 6.11 x 1.24 inchesWeight:2.2024Product ID:SCY3JQGY10
G.J. Toomer is Professor Emeritus of the History of Mathematics at Brown University. He is the author of Eastern Wisedome and Learning: The Study of Arabic in Seventeenth-Century England. He has also produced editions of the Arabic versions of Diocles' On Burning Mirrors and Apollonius's Conics, and, with Francis S. Benjamin Jr., produced an edition of Theorica planetarum by Campanus of Novara.
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