A likely source of an observation report in Ptolemy's \textit{Almagest}

DOI10.1007/S004070050040MaRDI QIDQ1806802zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexander Jones

Publication date 8 November 1999

Published in Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s004070050040

zbMATH Keywords

planetary observations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20)

Review text

The paper deals with Ptolemy's dependency on the planetary observations stored by his immediate predecessors. The author checks Ptolemaic numerical parameters against observations found in Greek papyri from Oxyrhynchus recently published.

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