Almagest
Almagest Almagest is the Latin form of the Arabic ... Ptolemy of Alexandria, Egypt. The date of Almagest has recently been more precisely established. Ptolemy ... Inscription was earlier than the version in Almagest. Hence Almagest cannot have been completed before about ...
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Almagest   (translated from German)
Almagest The most comprehensive and most competent representation ... translations one transferred and from there as Almagest into the today's linguistic usage changed ... of that time the text of the Almagest is completely delivered. The Almagest is based on that geocentric ptolemaeischen conception ... the planets) the Ptolemaeus stands in the Almagest those mathematical Description of the courses ...
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Almagest   (translated from Russian)
Almagest Almagest (Lat. Almagest from the Arabian. al-kitabu- l -mijisti ... who reported this labor to Europe, became "Almagest". In the "almagest" is presented that created by Ptolemy ...
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Talk:Almagest
Talk:Almagest It would be interesting to know the origin of the original Arabic term "Almagest" (al + something, I presume?). --babbage 21:59 ...
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Hipparchus (astronomer)
... Hipparchus comes from Ptolemy's (2nd century) Almagest ("the great treatise"; ed. [Toomer 1981]), with ... 4th century) in their commentaries on the Almagest; from Strabo's Geographia ("Geography"), and from ... the following: Ptolemy had stated in his Almagest IV.2 that Hipparchus improved the values ... others they used in System B (cf. Almagest IV.2): 223 (synodic) months = 239 returns ... relations that Ptolemy attributes to Hipparchus in Almagest IX.3 had all already been ...
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Talk:Hipparchus/archive1
... Think again - there are no translations of Almagest in my native -- and as I've ... If we treat internet as a modern Almagest as a source of an ancient astronomy ... you've said Ptolemy's claim from Almagest) Hipparchus value of "ty" with a correction ... have on Hipparchos are translations of the Almagest and the Naturalis Historia. Ptolemy states that ... is believed to be quite inaccurate, so Almagest is probably bad source for studing ...
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Hipparchos (astronomer)   (translated from German)
... best antique source to Hipparchos is that Almagest of the alexandrinischen Astronomer Ptolemaeus . Further information ... data Hipparchos ' are unknown, but in the Almagest observations are by it from the years ... is trained into the catalog of the Almagest, but Ptolemaeus calls the sources of the ... at least partial Hipparchos positions into that Almagest took over, and around the accumulated precession ... groups of probably older measurements in the Almagest be identified. The length of the ...
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New chronology   (translated from Russian)
... is a study of the starry catalog "almagest" - astronomical entsiklopedii , authorship of which is assigned ... Ptolemy. According to traditional history, Ptolemy created "almagest" near .ii in. n. 3 . On the ... occurred so later), either the authorship of "almagest" is determined erroneously or starry catalog was added into the "almagest" considerably later than the creation of labor ... known that the reached us text of "almagest" of Ptolemy edited and was finished ...
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Babylonian mathematics
... the following: Ptolemy had stated in his Almagest IV.2 that Hipparchus improved the values ... others they used in System B (cf. Almagest IV.2): 223 (synodic) months = 239 returns ... relations that Ptolemy attributes to Hipparchus in Almagest IX.3 had all already been used ... observations arranged in a more useful way" (Almagest IX.2). Pliny states (Naturalis Historia II ...
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Hipparchus On Sizes and Distances
... reconstructing the procedures of Hipparchus. Ptolemy In Almagest V, 11, Ptolemy writes: Now Hipparchus made ... when Pappus wrote his commentary on the Almagest. He fills in some of the details ... he was a primary source for the Almagest. Using this calculation, Swerdlow was able to ... variables can be found in Ptolemy's Almagest IV, 9. He says Hipparchus found that ...
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