Author | Graรhoff, Gerd. author |
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Title | The History of Ptolemy's Star Catalogue [electronic resource] / by Gerd Graรhoff |
Imprint | New York, NY : Springer New York, 1990 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4468-4 |
Descript | XIV, 348 p. online resource |
1 The Stars of the Almagest -- 1.1 The Documents -- 1.2 The Arabic Revision of the Almagest -- 2 Accusations -- 2.1 Tycho Brahe -- 2.2 Laplace and Lalande -- 2.3 Delambre's Investigations -- 3 The Rehabilitation of Ptolemy -- 3.1 The Number of Hipparchan Stars -- 3.2 Supplementary Catalogues -- 3.3 The Reconstruction of the Hipparchan Catalogue -- 3.4 Gundel's List of Hipparchan Stars -- 3.5 Precession and Solar Theory -- 3.6 Accusations -- 4 The Analysis of the Star Catalogue -- 4.1 The Catalogue in the Almagest -- 4.2 Criticism of Vogt -- 4.3 Gundel's Stars -- 5 Structures in Ptolemy's Star Catalogue -- 5.1 Star Maps -- 5.2 Multiple Sources -- 5.3 Method of Selective Error Distribution -- 5.4 Errors of the Solar Theory -- 5.5 Fractions of Degree -- 5.6 Hipparchus' Commentary on Aratus -- 5.7 Calculation of Phenomena -- 5.8 Deviations from Reality -- 5.9 Reconstruction -- 6 Theory and Observation -- 6.1 The Aristotelian Heritage -- 6.2 The Uncertainty of Empirical Data -- 6.3 Radical Empiricism -- 6.4 Holistic Rationalism -- 7 Appendix A -- 7.1 Stars and Constellations -- 7.2 Identifications -- 8 Appendix B -- 8.1 Transformation Formulae -- 8.2 Column Headings -- 9 Appendix C -- 9.1 Column Headings -- 10 Literature -- 11 Index