Ptolemy's universe : the natural philosophical and ethical foundations of Ptolemy's astronomy /
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| Author / Creator: | Taub, Liba Chaia, 1954- |
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| Imprint: | Chicago : Open Court, c1993. |
| Description: | xvi, 188 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4426345 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Ptolemy and the Historians
- 2. The Philosophical Preface to the Syntaxis
- 3. The Hypotheses Underlying the Syntaxis
- I. That the heaven moves spherically
- II. That the Earth, taken as a whole, is sensibly spherical
- III. That the Earth is in the middle of the heavens, with regard to the senses
- IV. That the Earth has the ratio of a point relative to the size of the heavens
- V. That the Earth makes no motion involving change of place
- VI. That there are two different primary motions in the heavens
- 4. Ptolemy's Cosmology
- 5. The Divinity of the Celestial Bodies and the Ethical Motivation for the Study of the Heavens
- I. The Greek Cosmological Tradition and the Search for the Divine
- II. The Ethical Motivation to Study Astronomy.
