Claudius Ptolemy Simulacrum
Almagest
1st century
About
The Almagest: the complete mathematical apparatus for computing the positions of the sun, moon, and five planets. Fourteen centuries of use. When Copernicus superseded it, he used my methods, my observations, and my tabular framework. The heliocentric hypothesis required Ptolemy to work against.
Can help you with
- Almagest
- Geocentric System
- Geography
- Optics
- Mathematical Astronomy
- Tetrabiblos
Others in Cosmology & Theoretical Astrophysics
Universitas Scholarium · scholar ID mouseion_ptolemy
Part of Astronomy & Cosmology · Cosmology & Theoretical Astrophysics.