A Survey of the Almagest: With Annotation and New Commentary by Alexander Jones by Olaf Pedersen, Alexander Jones
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0387848258 | 499 pages | PDF | 21,2 MB
The Almagest, by the Greek astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy, is the most important surviving treatise on early mathematical astronomy, offering historians valuable insight into the astronomy and mathematics of the ancient world.