↓ Skip to main content
What is this page? Embed badge

Ptolemy in Perspective

Overview of attention for book
Cover of 'Ptolemy in Perspective'

Table of Contents

  1. Altmetric Badge
    Book Overview
  2. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 1 An Unpublished Astronomical Papyrus Contemporary with Ptolemy
  3. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 2 Ancient Rejection and Adoption of Ptolemy’s Frame of Reference for Longitudes
  4. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 3 Ptolemy’s Doctrine of the Terms and Its Reception
  5. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 4 The Tradition of Texts and Maps in Ptolemy’s Geography
  6. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 5 Islamic Reactions to Ptolemy’s Imprecisions
  7. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 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)
  8. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 7 Tycho, Longomontanus, and Kepler on Ptolemy’s Solar Observations and Theory, Precession of the Equinoxes, and Obliquity of the Ecliptic
  9. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 8 Dunthorne, Mayer, and Lalande on the Secular Acceleration of the Moon
Attention for Chapter 2: Ancient Rejection and Adoption of Ptolemy’s Frame of Reference for Longitudes
Altmetric Badge

Mentioned by

wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page

Citations

dimensions_citation
4 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
1 Mendeley
Summary Wikipedia Dimensions citations
You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output. Click here to find out more.
Chapter title
Ancient Rejection and Adoption of Ptolemy’s Frame of Reference for Longitudes
Chapter number 2
Book title
Ptolemy in Perspective
Published by
Springer, Dordrecht, January 2010
DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-2788-7_2
Book ISBNs
978-9-04-812787-0, 978-9-04-812788-7
Authors

Alexander Jones, Jones, Alexander

View on publisher site

This page is provided by Altmetric.