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The Schemata of the Stars: Byzantine Astronomy from A.D. 1300
The Schemata of the Stars Byzantine Astronomy from AD 1300 Author:E. A. Paschos, Panagiotis Sotiroudis Most of the knowledge of ancient Greek science survived through Byzantine codices. A short Byzantine article, extant in three manuscripts, contains advanced astronomical ideas and pre-Copernican diagrams; it presents improvements on ancient and medieval astronomy. This book includes the edited version and translation of the text and analyzes its... more » content. It surveys the development of astronomical models from Ptolemy to Byzantium and compares them mathematically with several works of Arab astronomers; as well as with the heliocentric system of Copernicus and Newton.« less