Ptolemaiou procheiroi kanones
Contributors: Tihon, Anne; Mercier, Raymond; Union académique internationale; Institut orientaliste de Louvain
Series: Publications de l'Institut orientaliste de Louvain -- 59a, 59b,; Publications de l'Institut orientaliste de Louvain -- 59.
Publisher: Université catholique de Louvain, Institut orientaliste
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Louvain-la-Neuve
Language: fre
ISBN-13: 9789042924291; 9782758401315; 9789042924369; 9782758401179
Subjects: Greek Astronomy; Early works to 1800; Greek Mathematics
Other titles: Tables faciles de Ptolémée
Work titles: Handy tables
Description: The handy tables of Ptolemy have exercised, in the history of ancient astronomy, an influence at least equal to that of the Mathematical Syntaxis (Almagest). This work includes a short manual explaining how to use these tables, as well as the tables themselves. If the manual has already been the subject of a critical edition by Heiberg in the Opera astronomica minora of Ptolemy (1907), the tables themselves are only available in the old and rather unreliable edition of the Abbé Nicolas Halma (1822-1825). The present work constitutes the first volume of a critical edition of the astronomical tables. Volume PIOL 59b is devoted to the transcription of the tables and a commentary. The transcription isaccompanied by an apparatus which provides where necessary the correctly calculated entry. The commentary provides a study of the chronological background of the Era of Philip, a mathematical commentary on the tables of ascension (including the equation of time), and in a series appendices a review of Syriac and Arabic texts bearing on the handy tables.
Notes: "Cet ouvrage a bénéficié du soutien de l'Union Académique Internationale dans le cadre du projet Corpus des Astronomes Byzantins, et du soutien financier de l'Institut des Civilisations, Arts et lettres de l'Université Catholique de Louvain."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Tables are given in the original Greek and in English translation. Introductions in French and English. Volume 1b contains an Appendix F, entitled: The Handy tables in Arabic; this appendix contains Arabic text with English translations.
Table of contents: title: v. 1a. Les Tables faciles de Ptolémée. Tables A1-A2 : introduction, édition critique / Anne Tihon; title: v. 1b. Ptolemy's Handy tables. Tables A1-A2 : transcription and commentary / Raymond Mercier.