A Survey of the Almagest With Annotation and New Commentary by Alexander Jones /

• Main Author: Pedersen, Olaf (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Jones, Alexander (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
• Subjects: Mathematics.; History.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.

The "Almagest," by the Greek astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy, is the most important surviving treatise on early mathematical astronomy, offering historians valuable insight into the astronomy and mathematics of the ancient world. Pedersen's 1974 publication, "A Survey of the...

Table of Contents:

• - Forward to the revised edition
• Preface
• The almagest through the ages
• Physics and philosophy in the almagest
• Ptolemy as a mathematician
• Spherical astronomy in the almagest
• The motion of the sun
• The theories of the moon
• Parallaxes and eclipses
• The fixed stars
• The superior planets
• The inferior planets
• Retrograde motions and maximum elongations
• Latitudes and visibility periods
• Epilogue-the other ptolemy
• Apendix A: dated observations
• Appendix B: numerical parameters
• Bibliography
• Index of names
• Index of subjects
• Supplementary notes
• Supplementary bibliography.