Revamping Ptolemy's Proof for the Sphericity of the Heavens: Three Arabic Commentaries on Almagest I.3

Y. T. Langermann

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Abstract

In this project I finally return to one of my first projects in the history of science, one that I now know to have been constructed on false premises. The project was to search commentaries on the Almagest in order to see if and how thinkers may have challenged head on the …
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPtolemy’s Science of the Stars in the Middle Ages
EditorsDavid Juste, Benno van Dalen, Dag Nikolaus Hasse, Charles Burnett
Place of PublicationTurnhout
PublisherBrepols Publishers
Pages159-180
Number of pages22
ISBN (Electronic)978-2-503-58947-3
ISBN (Print)978-2-503-58639-7
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020

Publication series

NamePtolemaeus Arabus et Latinus - Studies (PALS)
PublisherBrepols
Volume1

Bibliographical note

More languages: Hebrew, Arabic

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