Ptolemy's cataloque of stars

a revision of the Almagest by Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters and Edward Ball Knobel.

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Ptolemy's cataloque of stars

a revision of the Almagest by Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters and Edward Ball Knobel.

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207

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Table of Contents

Preface (p. 1)
Historical (p. 6)
Errors of Ptolemy's longitudes (p. 16)
List of manuscripts collated (p. 18)
Notes on the manuscripts (p. 19)
Errors in manuscripts (p. 24)
The Catalogue (p. 25)
Catalogue I (p. 27)
Catalogue II (p. 51)
Catalogue III (p. 74)
Notes to the Catalogue of Stars (p. 96)
Table of differences of identification (p. 114)
The star magnitudes (p. 120)
Notes on the star magnitudes (p. 144)
Collations of manuscripts - Longitudes (p. 152)
Collations of manuscripts - Latitudes (p. 180)

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Series
Carnegie institution of Washington. Publication no. 86, Carnegie Institution of Washington publication -- 86

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QB41 P98 P4

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207p.
Number of pages
207

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