The History of Ptolemy’s Star CatalogueSpringer Science & Business Media, 7 de març 2013 - 348 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 Analysis of the Star Catalogue 92 | 22 |
The Rehabilitation of Ptolemy | 34 |
The Reconstruction of the Hipparchan Catalogue | 52 |
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Structures in Ptolemys Star Catalogue | 129 |
Theory and Observation | 198 |
Appendix A | 217 |
Appendix B | 270 |
Appendix C | 317 |
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1/4 degree stars according accuracy accurate Almagest Aratus Commentary astrolabe astronomical Boll Boll's calculated constellations correlation culminating declinations degree fractions Delambre Delambre's difference in longitude Dreyer ecliptical coordinate system ecliptical coordinates ecliptical latitudes ecliptical longitudes epoch equinox errors in latitude errors in longitude external stars fixed stars full degrees Gundel half degrees Hermes Hermes Trismegistos Hipparchan coordinates Hipparchan longitudes Hipparchan register Hipparchus hypothesis interpretation Lalande Manitius mean sun mean value measurements Menelaus moon Name HR Neugebauer Newton normal distributions number of stars observations phenomena precession constant precession motion Ptol Ptolemaic star catalogue Ptolemy Ptolemy's Catalogue reconstructed Hipparchan reference stars right ascensions solar theory Spica star totals stellar coordinates stellar longitudes stellar positions systematic error theoretical Timocharis Vogt zodiac