Regiomontanus on Ptolemy, Physical Orbs, and Astronomical Fictionalism: Goldsteinian Themes in the “Defense of Theon against George of Trebizond”

DOI10.1162/106361402321147522zbMath1330.01019OpenAlexW1969107658MaRDI QIDQ3467768

Michael H. Shank

Publication date: 4 February 2016

Published in: Perspectives on Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1162/106361402321147522

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in Late Antiquity and medieval Europe (01A35) History of astronomy and astrophysics (85-03)

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Cites Work

• Homocentric Astronomy in the Latin West. The De reprobatione ecentricorum et epiciclorum of Henry of Hesse
• A Medieval Objection to “Ptolemy”
• Theory and Observation in Medieval Astronomy

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