Claudii Ptolemaei Opera Quae Exstant Omnia - Ptolemaei Opera Quae Exstant Omni

Published in 1907, Volume 2 contains Ptolemy's shorter astronomical works in the original Greek, with a Latin prolegomena.

List of contents

Praefatio; Prolegomena; Risings of the fixed stars; Planetary hypotheses; Inscriptio canobi; Handy tables; Peri analemmatos; Planisphaerium; Fragmenta; Index.

Summary

Published 1898–1907, this three-part collection, edited by the Danish philologist Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1854–1928), contains the extant astronomical works in Greek of Ptolemy, active in second-century Alexandria. Volume 2 (1907) contains Ptolemy's shorter astronomical works, notably Hypotheseis ton planomenon, his planetary hypotheses, along with a substantial Latin prolegomena.

Product details

• Authors: Ptolemy
• Assisted by: Johan Ludvig Heiberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.02.2014
• EAN: 9781108063661
• ISBN: 978-1-108-06366-1
• No. of pages: 494
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Esoterics: general, reference works