Notes on the Transmission of Ptolemy's Almagest and Some Geometrical Mechanisms to the Era of Copernicus

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Krisciunas, Kevin; Bistué, María Belén
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2019
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We trace the transmission of Ptolemy´s Almagest from the time of its composition to Arabic translations, Latin translations, and the Epitome of the Almagest by Peurbach and Regiomontanus. Along the way, Ptolemaic astronomy and Aristotelian science acquired some new features in thirteenth-century Maragha and fourteenth-century Damascus which may or may not have been transmitted to Copernicus himself. While present evidence still indicates that Copernicus derived his geodynamic, heliocentric system on his own, we now have evidence for the transmission of some geometrical mechanisms from Asia Minor to Italy and beyond after the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453. It stands to reason that if documents by medieval scholars appeared in Western Europe, and Renaissance scholars who understood these documents traveled to Italy at the time Copernicus was there, some of these geometrical mechanisms could have found their way into Copernicus´s work.
Fil: Krisciunas, Kevin. Texas A&M University; Estados Unidos
Fil: Bistué, María Belén. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo; Argentina
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HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY
COPERNICAN THEORY
PTOLEMY'S ALMANGEST
TRANSLATION
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Notes on the Transmission of Ptolemy's Almagest and Some Geometrical Mechanisms to the Era of Copernicus
title Notes on the Transmission of Ptolemy's Almagest and Some Geometrical Mechanisms to the Era of Copernicus
spellingShingle Notes on the Transmission of Ptolemy's Almagest and Some Geometrical Mechanisms to the Era of Copernicus
Krisciunas, Kevin
HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY
COPERNICAN THEORY
PTOLEMY'S ALMANGEST
TRANSLATION
title_short Notes on the Transmission of Ptolemy's Almagest and Some Geometrical Mechanisms to the Era of Copernicus
title_full Notes on the Transmission of Ptolemy's Almagest and Some Geometrical Mechanisms to the Era of Copernicus
title_fullStr Notes on the Transmission of Ptolemy's Almagest and Some Geometrical Mechanisms to the Era of Copernicus
title_full_unstemmed Notes on the Transmission of Ptolemy's Almagest and Some Geometrical Mechanisms to the Era of Copernicus
title_sort Notes on the Transmission of Ptolemy's Almagest and Some Geometrical Mechanisms to the Era of Copernicus
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Krisciunas, Kevin
Bistué, María Belén
author Krisciunas, Kevin
author_facet Krisciunas, Kevin
Bistué, María Belén
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY
COPERNICAN THEORY
PTOLEMY'S ALMANGEST
TRANSLATION
topic HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY
COPERNICAN THEORY
PTOLEMY'S ALMANGEST
TRANSLATION
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.3
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv We trace the transmission of Ptolemy´s Almagest from the time of its composition to Arabic translations, Latin translations, and the Epitome of the Almagest by Peurbach and Regiomontanus. Along the way, Ptolemaic astronomy and Aristotelian science acquired some new features in thirteenth-century Maragha and fourteenth-century Damascus which may or may not have been transmitted to Copernicus himself. While present evidence still indicates that Copernicus derived his geodynamic, heliocentric system on his own, we now have evidence for the transmission of some geometrical mechanisms from Asia Minor to Italy and beyond after the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453. It stands to reason that if documents by medieval scholars appeared in Western Europe, and Renaissance scholars who understood these documents traveled to Italy at the time Copernicus was there, some of these geometrical mechanisms could have found their way into Copernicus´s work.
Fil: Krisciunas, Kevin. Texas A&M University; Estados Unidos
Fil: Bistué, María Belén. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo; Argentina
description We trace the transmission of Ptolemy´s Almagest from the time of its composition to Arabic translations, Latin translations, and the Epitome of the Almagest by Peurbach and Regiomontanus. Along the way, Ptolemaic astronomy and Aristotelian science acquired some new features in thirteenth-century Maragha and fourteenth-century Damascus which may or may not have been transmitted to Copernicus himself. While present evidence still indicates that Copernicus derived his geodynamic, heliocentric system on his own, we now have evidence for the transmission of some geometrical mechanisms from Asia Minor to Italy and beyond after the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453. It stands to reason that if documents by medieval scholars appeared in Western Europe, and Renaissance scholars who understood these documents traveled to Italy at the time Copernicus was there, some of these geometrical mechanisms could have found their way into Copernicus´s work.
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1440-2807
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