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The Spherics of Theodosios

By: Nathan Sidoli,R.S.D. Thomas

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This book provides the first English translation of the Greek text of the Spherics of Theodosios (2nd-1st century BCE), a canonical mathematical and astronomical text used from as early as the 2nd century CE until the early modern period. Accompanied by an introduction to the life and works of Theodosios and a contextualization of his Spherics among other works of Greek mathematics and astronomy, the translation is followed by a detailed commentary, and an accessible English paraphrase accompanied with mathematically generated diagrams. The volume has a broad appeal to both general and specialist readers who do not read ancient Greek – allowing readers to understand the mathematical and astronomical principles and methods used by ancient and medieval readers of this important text. The paraphrase with its mathematical diagrams will be useful for readers with a scientific and mathematical background. This study of one of the canonical mathematical and astronomical texts of the ancient Greco-Roman, classical Islamic, and medieval Christian worlds provides an invaluable resource for historians of science, astronomy, and mathematics, and scholars of the ancient and medieval periods.

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Euclid's Phaenomena

A Translation and Study of a Hellenistic Treatise in Spherical Astronomy

By: J. L. Berggren,R. S. D. Thomas

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Euclid's Phaenomena

A Translation and Study of a Hellenistic Treatise in Spherical Astronomy

By: J. L. Berggren,R. S. D. Thomas

Originally published in 1996, this book contains a translation and study of Euclid's Phaenomena, a work which once formed part of the mathematical training of astronomers from Central Asia to Western Europe. Included is an introduction that sets Euclid's geometry of the celestial sphere, and its application to the astronomy of his day, into its historical context for readers not already familiar with it. So no knowledge of astronomy or advanced mathematics is necessary for an understanding of the work. The book shows mathematical astronomy shortly before the invention of trigonometry, which allowed the calculation of exact results and the subsequent composition of Ptolemy's Almagest. This work and the (roughly) contemporaneous treatises of Autolycus and Aristarchos form a corpus of the oldest extant works on mathematical astronomy. Together with Euclid's Optics one has the beginnings of the history of science as an application of mathematics.

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The Spherics of Theodosios

By: Nathan Sidoli,R.S.D. Thomas

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Euclid's Phaenomena

A Translation and Study of a Hellenistic Treatise in Spherical Astronomy

By: J. L. Berggren,R. S. D. Thomas

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A Translation and Study of a Hellenistic Treatise in Spherical Astronomy

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