Claudii Ptolemaei opera quae exstant omnia 2 Volume Set (Cambridge Library Collection - Classics) - Hardcover

Ptolemy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1108063632 ISBN 13: 9781108063630

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Best known for his 1906 discovery of lost texts in the Archimedes Palimpsest, Danish scholar Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1854-1928), professor of classical philology at Copenhagen, published numerous editions of ancient mathematicians, including Archimedes and Apollonius of Perga (also reissued in this series). Between 1898 and 1907, he published in three parts the extant astronomical works of Ptolemy, active in second-century Alexandria. The Ptolemaic system, his geocentric model of the universe, prevailed in the Islamic world and in medieval Europe until the time of Copernicus. Volume 1 appeared in two parts. Part 1 (1898) contains Books 1-6 of Ptolemy's major astronomical treatise, the Almagest. Part 2 (1903) contains Books 7-13. Volume 2 (1907) contains a substantial prolegomena in Latin, followed by the Greek text of Ptolemy's shorter astronomical works, notably Hypotheseis ton planomenon, his planetary hypotheses, provided here with a facing-page translation into German.

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Book Description

Published 1898-1907, this three-part collection, edited by the Danish philologist Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1854-1928), contains the extant astronomical works in Greek of Ptolemy, active in second-century Alexandria. Parts 1 and 2 of Volume 1 contain Ptolemy's major treatise, the Almagest, while Volume 2 contains his shorter astronomical works.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1108063632
• ISBN 13: 9781108063630
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 1670
• Editor: Heiberg Johan Ludvig