A survey of the Almagest. Edited by Alexander Jones, with annotation and a new commentary

DOI10.1007/978-0-387-84826-6MaRDI QIDQ992746zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Olaf Pedersen

Publication date 9 September 2010

Published in Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-84826-6

zbMATH Keywords

AlmagestPtolemy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of astronomy and astrophysics (85-03)

Review text

\textit{O. Pedersen}, ``A survey of the Almagest was first published in 1974 in Odense [Zbl 0343.01003], it contained 454 pages. The new edition presents the unaltered text of Pedersen, only little errors have been corrected. The new edition is supplied with ``Supplementary Notes and a ``Supplementary Bibliography (pp. 455--476 and 477--480, resp.), written by Alexander Jones.

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