Πτολεμαῖος
Ptolemaios, Ptolemaeus, Ptolemy
Translated by Catharine Roth2 Jan 2003Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
[Ptolemy] who was called Claudius, a philosopher of Alexandria. He lived at the time of the emperor Marcus [Aurelius].1 This man wrote 3 books of Mechanics, 2 books Concerning the appearances and indications of the fixed stars, Simplification of the surface of a sphere, Handy Tables, the Great Astronomy or Systematic Treatise,2 and other works.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πτολεμαῖος, ὁ Κλαύδιος χρηματίσας, Ἀλεξανδρεύς, φιλόσοφος, γεγονὼς ἐπὶ τῶν χρόνων Μάρκου τοῦ βασιλέως. οὗτος ἔγραψε Μηχανικὰ βιβλία γʹ, Περὶ φάσεων καὶ ἐπισημασιῶν ἀστέρων ἀπλανῶν βιβλία βʹ, Ἅπλωσιν ἐπιφανείας σφαίρας, Κανόνα πρόχειρον, τὸν Μέγαν ἀστρονόμον ἤτοι Σύνταξιν· καὶ ἄλλα.
Betacode
*ptolemai=os, o( *klau/dios xrhmati/sas, *)alecandreu/s, filo/sofos, gegonw\s e)pi\ tw=n xro/nwn *ma/rkou tou= basile/ws. ou(=tos e)/graye *mhxanika\ bibli/a g#, *peri\ fa/sewn kai\ e)pishmasiw=n a)ste/rwn a)planw=n bibli/a b#, *(/aplwsin e)pifanei/as sfai/ras, *kano/na pro/xeiron, to\n *me/gan a)strono/mon h)/toi *su/ntacin: kai\ a)/lla.
Notes (2)
- Ptolemy's works on astronomy and geography were not superseded until the 15th century. See OCD4 s.v. Ptolemy(4); article by J. J. O'Connor and E. F. Robertson at web address 1 (MacTutor History of Mathematics).
- 1Reigned 161-180 BCE; see generally mu 214, mu 215. ↩
- 2Best known by its Arabic title, the Almagest, derived from the Greek
megi/sth [su/ntacis] . ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk
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