Conformément aux observations d'Hipparque
Subtitle: le Papyrus Fouad inv. 267A
By: Jean-Luc Fournet, Anne Tihon ; annex by Raymond Mercier
Contributors: Tihon, Anne, author; Mercier, Raymond, writer of supplementary textual content; Société Fouad I de papyrologie (Cairo, Egypt)
Series: Publications de l'Institut orientaliste de Louvain -- 67; Publications de l'Institut orientaliste de Louvain -- 67.
Publisher: Université catholique de Louvain, Institut orientaliste
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Louvain-la-Neuve
Language: fre; eng; grc
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9789042930216; 9782758402039
Subjects: Ancient Astronomy; Early works to 1800; Greek Astronomy; Observations; Société Fouad I de papyrologie (Cairo, Egypt)
Other titles: Papyrus Fouad inv. 267 A
Description: "The Papyrus Fouad inv. 267A, a document of exceptional importance for the history of ancient astromony, consists of a fragment of a treatise written in Alexandria around 130 A.D. The preserved part, which occupies the recto and verso of a single folio, deals with the Sun, whose longitude is calculated according to three different years: the sidereal year, the "mean year" of 365 and 1/4 days, and the tropical year."--
Notes: Includes the Greek text of the manuscript Fouad inv. 267A in two transcriptions (diplomatic and normalized), followed by a French translation.

Raymond Mercier's Annex (pages 153-175) is in English and has the title: Tables and summary analysis.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-181) and index.
Table of contents: title: Première partie. Édition, traduction et notes / par Jean-Luc Fournet et Anne Tihon; title: Deuxième partie. Commentaire / par Anne Tihon.