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Juste, David - Dalen, Benno van - Hasse, Dag Nikolaus - Burnett, Charles (eds.), Ptolemy's Science of the Stars in the Middle Ages, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020, 473 pp.
- Resum
- Claudius Ptolemy (c. 100-170 ad) is one of the most influential scholars of all time. While he is also the author of treatises on geography, optics and harmonics, his fame primarily stems from two works on the science of the stars, dealing with mathematical astronomy (the Almagest) and astrology (the Tetrabiblos). The Almagest and the Tetrabiblos remained the fundamental texts on the science of the stars for some 1500 years. Both were translated several times into Arabic and Latin and were heavily commented upon, glossed, discussed, and also criticised and improved upon, in the Islamic world and in Christian Europe. Yet, the reception of Ptolemy in medieval cultures is still to a large extent a terra incognita of the history of science. The Arabic and Latin versions of the Almagest and the Tetrabiblos are for the most part unavailable in modern editions, their manuscripts remain largely unexplored and, generally speaking, their history has never been systematically investigated. This volume gathers together fifteen contributions dealing with various aspects of the reception of Ptolemy's astronomy and astrology in the Islamic world and in Christian Europe up to the seventeenth century.
Contents:
* Introduction · 1
I. The Greek and Near Eastern Traditions
* The Ancient Ptolemy / Alexander Jones · 11
* Mathematical Methods in Ptolemy's Analemma / Nathan Sidoli · 35
* Was there a Ninth Sphere in Ptolemy? / Paul Hullmeine · 79
* ‘Fort. recte': Witnesses to the Text of Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos in Its Near Eastern Transmission / Bojidar Dimitrov · 97
II. The Arabic Tradition
* The Oldest Translation of the Almagest Made for al-Maʾmūn by al-Ḥasan ibn Quraysh: A Text Fragment in Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ's Critique on al-Fārābī's Commentary / Johannes Thomann · 117
* Thābit ibn Qurra's Version of the Almagest and Its Reception in Arabic Astronomical Commentaries (based on the presentation held at the Warburg Institute, London, 5th November 2015) / Dirk Grupe · 139
* Langermann (2020), "Revamping Ptolemy's Proof for the ..."
* The Arabic Versions of Jābir b. Aflaḥ's al-Kitāb fī l-Hayʾa / José Bellver · 181
* The Astrological Computations Attributed to Ptolemy and Hermes in Medieval Arabic Sources / Josep Casulleras · 201
III. The Latin Tradition
* Glosses on the Almagest by Campanus of Novara and Others in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 7256 / Henry Zepeda · 225
* A Discussion on Ptolemy's Authority: Henry Bate's Prologue to His Translation of Ibn Ezra's Book of the World / Carlos Steel · 245
* Boudet (2020), "The Medieval Latin Versions of ..."
* Regiomontanus versus George of Trebizond on Planetary Order, Distances, and Orbs (Almagest 9.1) / Michael H. Shank · 305
* Optimus Malorum: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Complex and Highly Interested Use of Ptolemy in the Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem (1496). A Preliminary Survey / H. Darrel Rutkin · 387
* Longomontanus on Mars: The Last Ptolemaic Mathematical Astronomer Creates a Theory / Richard L. Kremer · 407
- Matèries
- Astronomia i astrologia
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- URL
- https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/book/10.1484/M.PA ...
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