Ptolemy in perspective
Subtitle: use and criticism of his work from antiquity to the nineteenth century
By: Alexander Jones [editor]
Contributors: Caltech conference "Ptolemy in Perspective" (2007 : Pasadena)
Series: Archimedes -- v. 23; Archimedes (Dordrecht, Netherlands) -- v. 23.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Dordrecht; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9789048127870
Subjects: Ancient Science; History
Notes: Volume gathers most of the papers presented at the Caltech conference "Ptolemy in Perspective", held at The Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology, May 31 through June 2, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-229).
Table of contents: title: An unplublished astronomical papyrus contemporary with Ptolemy  -- Anne Tihon; title: Ancient rejection and adoption of Ptolemy's frame of reference for longitudes  -- Alexander Jones; title: Ptolemy's doctrine of the terms and its reception  -- Stephan Heilen; title: The tradition of texts and maps in Ptolemy's Geography  -- Florian Mittenhuber; title: Islamic reactions to Ptolemy's imprecisions  -- F. Jamil Ragep; title: The use and abuse of Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos in Renaissance and early modern Europe :; title: two case studies (Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Filippo Fantoni)  -- H. Darrel Rutkin; title: Tycho, Longomontanus, and Kepler on Ptolemy's solar observations and theory, precession of the equinoxes, and obliquity of the ecliptic  -- N.M. Swedlow; title: Dunthorne, Mayer, and Lalande on the secular acceleration of the moon -- J.M. Steele.