Ptolemy and Ancient Astronomy

FURTHER READING

Michael Hoskin, ed., ‘The Cambridge Illustrated History of Astronomy’ (Cambridge University Press, 1996)

John North, ‘Cosmos: An Illustrated History of Astronomy and Cosmology’ (University of Chicago Press, 2008)

Christopher Walker, ed., ‘Astronomy Before the Telescope’ (British Museum Press, 1996)

‘Ptolemy’s Almagest’, translated and annotated by G. J. Toomer (Princeton University Press, 1998)

‘Ptolemy: Tetrabiblos’, ed. and trans. Frank E. Robbins (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press [Loeb Classical Library], 1940)

‘Ptolemy’s Geography: An Annotated Translation of the Theoretical Chapters’, trans. and ed. J. Lennart Berggren and Alexander Jones (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2000)

‘Ptolemaios, Handbuch der Geographie, Griechisch-Deutsch’, ed. Alfred Stückelbergerand Gerd Graßhoff 2 vols (Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2006)

‘Ptolemy Harmonics’, translated and commentary by Jon Solomon (Leiden and Boston: Brill Publishers, 2000)

‘Ptolemy’s Theory of Visual Perception: An English Translation of the Optics’, with introduction and commentary by A. M. Smith, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 86, Part 2 (Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1996)

Andrew Barker, ‘Scientific Method in Ptolemy’s Harmonics’ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)

Michael J. Crowe, ‘Theories of the World from Antiquity to the Copernican Revolution’ (New York: Dover, 1990)

James Evans, ‘The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy’ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998)

Olaf Pedersen, ‘A Survey of the Almagest’, with annotation and new commentary by Alexander Jones (New York: Springer, 2010)

Liba Taub, ‘Ptolemy’s Universe: The Natural, Philosophical and Ethical Foundations of Ptolemy’s Astronomy’ (Chicago: Open Court, 1993)

Alexander Jones, ‘Astronomical Papyri from Oxyrhynchus’ (1999)

Charles Burnett, ‘Why Study Ptolemy’s Almagest? The Evidence of MS Melbourne, State Library of Victoria, Sinclair 224’, The La Trobe Journal, 81, Autumn 2008, pp. 126–43