The History of Ptolemy’s Star CatalogueSpringer Science & Business Media, 1990 - 347 pàgines Ptolemy's Almagest shares with Euclid's Elements the glory of being the scientific text longest in use. From its conception in the second century up to the late Renaissance, this work determined astronomy as a science. During this time the Almagest was not only a work on astronomy; the subject was defined as what is described in the Almagest. The cautious emancipation of the late middle ages and the revolutionary creation of the new science in the 16th century are not conceivable without reference to the Almagest. This text lifted European astronomy to the high standard of knowledge on which the new science flourished. Before, the Ptolemaic models of the orbits of the sun, the moon, and the planets had been refined by Arabic astronomers. They provided the structural elements with which Copernicus and Kepler ushered in the era of modern astronomy. The Almagest survived the destruction of its epicyclic representation of the planetary orbits in the conceptual traces left behind in the theories of its successors. The clear separation of the sidereal from the tropical year, the celestial coordinate systems, the concepts of time, the forms of the constellations, and brightness classifications of celestial objects are, among many other things, still part of the astronomical canon even today. |
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The Stars of the Almagest | 16 |
112 Methodological Background | 16 |
113 The Almagest on Fixed Stars | 16 |
12 The Arabic Revision of the Almagest | 16 |
Accusations | 21 |
22 Laplace and Lalande | 23 |
23 Delambres Investigations | 25 |
The Rehabilitation of Ptolemy | 32 |
425 Statistical Test for Independent Data A Simulation | 108 |
426 Dating | 115 |
43 Gunders Stars | 120 |
Structures in Ptolemys Star Catalogue | 127 |
52 Multiple Sources | 133 |
521 Dreyers Paradigm | 134 |
53 Method of Selective Error Distribution | 138 |
531 ClusterAnalysis | 140 |
32 Supplementary Catalogues | 41 |
322 Dreyers 14 Degree Stars | 42 |
323 Dreyer II | 45 |
324 Fotheringham | 47 |
33 The Reconstruction of the Hipparchan Catalogue | 50 |
331 The Determination of the Precession | 57 |
332 Dreyers 14 degree stars | 59 |
333 Peters Hypotheses of two Observation Instruments | 61 |
335 The Epoch of Observation for the Hipparchan Coordinates | 62 |
34 Gundels List of Hipparchan Stars | 65 |
35 Precession and Solar Theory | 71 |
352 The Hipparchan Solar Theory | 74 |
36 Accusations | 77 |
361 The Observation of Regulus and Spica | 78 |
362 The Measurements of Declination | 79 |
363 Stellar Positions from Occultations by the Moon | 81 |
364 Fraction of the Degrees | 82 |
The Analysis of the Star Catalogue | 90 |
411 Critical Edition of the Catalogue | 92 |
412 Recalculation of the Coordinates for the time of Hipparchus | 93 |
414 Errors in the Almagest | 95 |
42 Criticism of Vogt | 97 |
422 Reconstruction of Coordinates | 102 |
423 The Accuracy of the Reconstructed Coordinates | 104 |
424 Vogts Proof of Independent Observations | 105 |
54 Errors of the Solar Theory | 146 |
55 Fractions of Degree | 154 |
551 Fractions of Degrees in Latitude | 156 |
552 Fractions of Degree in Longitude | 162 |
56 Hipparchus Commentary on Aratus | 172 |
562 Numerical Values | 173 |
57 Calculation of Phenomena | 175 |
I 572 Simultaneous Rising and Setting | 176 |
582 From Observation to Phenomena | 180 |
583 New Ways of Comparison | 182 |
584 The Globe | 188 |
585 More Details | 189 |
59 Reconstruction | 190 |
Theory and Observation | 196 |
62 The Uncertainty of Empirical Data | 197 |
63 Radical Empiricism | 202 |
64 Holistic Rationalism | 207 |
Appendix A | 215 |
72 Identifications | 216 |
Appendix B | 268 |
82 Column Headings | 269 |
Appendix C | 315 |
Literature | 333 |
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