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The Motion of the Sun

  • Pedersen O
Springer New York, (2011), 122-158
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-84826-6_5
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Abstract

The mathematics and the spherical astronomy of the first two Books of the Almagest contained what Ptolemy considered the preliminaries necessary to the study of planetary theory, which is the main subject of the whole work, and that part of astronomy in which Ptolemy asserts his own originality in the most convincing way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Pedersen, O. (2011). The Motion of the Sun. In A Survey of the Almagest (pp. 122–158). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-84826-6_5

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