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Claudius Ptolemaus. Der Sternkatalog des Almagest: Die arabisch-mittelalterliche Tradition, Teil II: Die lateinische Ubersetzung Gerhards von Cremona; Teil III: Gesamt-konkordanz der Sternkoordinaten.
These two handsome volumes are the second and third in a series of three volumes devoted to the project of the Ptolemaic star catalogue in medieval times; the first, devoted to the Arabic translations from Greek was discussed by the present reviewer in JAOS 109 (1989): 694-96.
In comparison with the Arabic tradition treated in the first volume, the Latin tradition taken up in the second is much more difficu...See the full content of this document
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