[DOC] [TLE] Ptolemy (print-only) [PAR] One of the most influential Greek astronomers and geographers of his time, ... 
The Almagest is the earliest of Ptolemy's works and gives in detail the ... second 
century up to the late Renaissance, this work determined astronomy as a science
. .... a position to apply these to obtain a theory of eclipses which he does in Book 
6. [DOC] [TLE] Pappus (print-only) - MacTutor History of Mathematics [PAR] Pappus of Alexandria is the last of the great Greek geometers and one of his 
theorems is ... There is a reference in the Suda Lexicon (a work of a 10th century 
Greek ... the Almagest  that he observed the eclipse of the sun in Alexandria 
which took ... Book VI deals with the books on astronomy which were collected 
into the... [DOC] [TLE] Ptolemy facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ... [PAR] Since he wrote several major works after the Almagest, this evidence fits well with 
the ... Ptolemy's chief work in astronomy, and the book on which his later 
reputation ... but by the early third century Aristyllus and Timo-charis in 
Alexandria were ..... Eclipse theory, the topic of book VI, is easily derived from 
what precedes. [DOC] [TLE] Tetrabiblos - Wikipedia [PAR] Tetrabiblos four books', also known in Greek as Apotelesmatik (
) "Effects", and in Latin as Quadripartitum "Four Parts", is a text on the philosophy 
and practice of astrology, written in the 2nd century AD by the Alexandrian 
scholar Claudius Ptolemy ... Compiled in Alexandria in the 2nd century, the work 
gathered commentaries... [DOC] [TLE] Pappus of Alexandria - Wikipedia [PAR] However, a real date comes from the dating of a solar eclipse mentioned by 
Pappus himself, when in his commentary on the Almagest he calculates "the 
place... [DOC] [TLE] Nuncius, 22 (2007), 261285 [PAR] He lived in Alexandria in the 2nd century A.D., but the precise dates of his birth 
and ... Ptolemy's Almagest (dating from the 2nd century A.D.) is a remarkable and 
original ... In addition to the Almagest, his best known work, he com- posed the 
..... Book 6 is devoted to the theory of solar and lunar eclipses, while Books. 7 and 
8... [DOC] [TLE] BIOGRAPHY: Claudius Ptolemy [PAR] One of the most influential Greek astronomers and geographers of his time, ... In 
fact there is no evidence that Ptolemy was ever anywhere other than Alexandria. 
... the second century up to the late Renaissance, this work determined 
astronomy ... position to apply these to obtain a theory of eclipses which he does 
in Book 6. [DOC] [TLE] Claudius Ptolemy by Sara Moore on Prezi [PAR] Born in the Roman Province of Alexandria, Egypt during the 2nd century C.E. ... 
He thought the Earth was unmovable, but science later proved that his theory 
was wrong ... and eclipses, and today it is still used as a model for astronomical 
tables. ... Book 9-13:Talks about the Geocentric model of the five planets to 
predict the... [DOC] [TLE] A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology ... [PAR] Old manuscripts of his works call him Pelusiensis and Pheludiensis. ... Secondly, 
a Florence manuscript of the twelfth century, marked 2390. ... S. Gracilis (Legrle) 
published the second book in Latin, Paris, 1556, 8vo. ... The part of the Almagest 
which really concerns the modern astronomer, as part of the effective records of... [DOC] [TLE] Rediscovering Arabic Science | Muslim Heritage [PAR] The 13th-century Persian astronomer Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, the author of one of 
the ... The Organon is the name given to the collection of Aristotle's six works on 
logic. ... of science (from the fifth century BC to the second century of our era) and 
the ..... reference for Islamic astronomy was Ptolemy's Almagest, or The Great 
Book,... [DOC] [TLE] Founders of Modern Astronomy - Vigyan Prasar [PAR] The history of astronomy is the growth of man's concept of his world. He always 
instinctively ... Page 6 ... There are founders, those whose

Question: This Alexandrian astronomer discusses eclipses in book VI of his 2nd century work "Almagest"
Answer: Ptolemy