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Ptolemy in Perspective
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Table of Contents
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Altmetric BadgeBook Overview
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 1 An Unpublished Astronomical Papyrus Contemporary with Ptolemy
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 2 Ancient Rejection and Adoption of Ptolemy’s Frame of Reference for Longitudes
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 3 Ptolemy’s Doctrine of the Terms and Its Reception
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 4 The Tradition of Texts and Maps in Ptolemy’s Geography
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 5 Islamic Reactions to Ptolemy’s Imprecisions
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 6 The Use and Abuse of Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe: Two Case Studies (Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Filippo Fantoni)
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 7 Tycho, Longomontanus, and Kepler on Ptolemy’s Solar Observations and Theory, Precession of the Equinoxes, and Obliquity of the Ecliptic
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 8 Dunthorne, Mayer, and Lalande on the Secular Acceleration of the Moon