Geminos's Introduction to the Phenomena: A Translation and Study of a Hellenistic Survey of AstronomyPrinceton University Press, 29 d’oct. 2006 - 325 pàgines This is the first complete English translation of Geminos's Introduction to the Phenomena--one of the most important and interesting astronomical works of its type to have survived from Greek antiquity. Gracefully and charmingly written, Geminos's first-century BC textbook for beginning students of astronomy can now be read straight through with understanding and enjoyment by a wider audience than ever before. James Evans and Lennart Berggren's accurate and readable translation is accompanied by a thorough introduction and commentary that set Geminos's work in its historical, scientific, and philosophical context. This book is generously illustrated with diagrams from medieval manuscripts of Geminos's text, as well as drawings and photographs of ancient astronomical instruments. It will be of great interest to students of the history of science, to classicists, and to professional and amateur astronomers who seek to learn more about the origins of their science. |
Continguts
1 Significance Of Geminoss Introduction To The Phenomena | 2 |
2 Geminoss Other Works | 3 |
3 On the Phenomena In Greek Astronomy | 4 |
4 The Greek Genre Of Astronomical Surveys | 8 |
5 Geminoss Sources For His Introduction | 12 |
6 Geminoss Country And Date | 15 |
7 Geminos And The Stoics | 23 |
8 Geminos On Astronomical Instruments And Models | 27 |
V The Circles on the Sphere | 149 |
VI On Day and Night | 161 |
VII On the Risings of the 12 Signs1 | 169 |
VIII On Months | 175 |
IX On Phases of the Moon | 186 |
X On the Eclipse of the Sun | 189 |
XI On the Eclipse of the Moon | 191 |
XII That the Planets Make the Movement Opposite to That of the Cosmos | 195 |
9 Geminos On Mathematical Genres | 43 |
10 Reality And Representation In Greek Astronomy Hypotheses and Phenomena | 49 |
11 Heliacal Risings And Settings | 58 |
12 Astronomical Applications Of Arithmetic Progressions | 73 |
13 Lunar And Lunisolar Cycles | 82 |
14 On The Text And Translation Editions and Translations of Geminos | 101 |
Translation And Commentary | 111 |
I On the Circle of the Signs | 113 |
II Aspects of the Zodiacal Signs | 125 |
III On the Constellations | 137 |
IV On the Axis and the Poles | 146 |
XIII On Risings and Settings1 | 200 |
XIV On the Paths of the Fixed Stars | 205 |
XV Concerning the Zones on Earth | 208 |
XVI On Geographical Regions1 | 210 |
XVII On Weather Signs from the Stars | 217 |
XVIII On the Exeligmos | 227 |
Fragments 1 and 2 from Geminoss Other Works | 241 |
From Geminoss Philokalia Geminos on the Classification of the Mathematical Sciences | 243 |
From Geminoss Concise Exposition of the Meteorology of Poseidonios Geminos on the Relation of Astronomy to Physics | 250 |
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