Ptolemy's "Almagest"
Ptolemy's "Almagest"
Editorial Reviews
G.E.R. Lloyd, The Times Literary Supplement
"On the whole the accuracy and faithfulness to the original, including the small but important matter of a scrupulous adherence to Ptolemy's own mathematical notations, are exemplary."
Review
Noel Swerdlow, University of Chicago : Whatever we now understand of Ptolemy ... is in this book.
Ptolemy's "Almagest"
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