The Apex of Ptolemaic Astronomy: The Epitome Almagesti of Peurbach and Regiomontanus from almagest Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 46 min 9 sec
✓ Published: 02-Aug-2019

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July 30, 2019, at the Linda Hall Library nnOne of the treasures of the Linda Hall Library is a relatively thin, unassuming volume printed in Venice in 1496, entitled Epytoma in Almagestum Ptolemei. This book, a reworking of Ptolemy’s astronomical masterpiece, the Almagest, was written in the early 1460s by Georg Peurbach and Johannes Regiomontanus, two of the most important figures of fifteenth-century astronomy. While it built upon earlier medieval commentaries on the Almagest, the Epitome Al