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To: ConservativeDude

>>>> Ptolemy’s Almagest

>>Do you have to be an expert to read this?

If you’ve read Euclid’s Elements, the Almagest isn’t too bad. If not, then there are better ways to get an overview of Ancient Astronomy.


160 posted on 01/08/2008 9:37:02 AM PST by vikingd00d
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To: vikingd00d

If you’ve read Euclid’s Elements, the Almagest isn’t too bad. If not, then there are better ways to get an overview of Ancient Astronomy.”

So Euclid first, then Ptolemy?


179 posted on 01/08/2008 10:17:57 AM PST by ConservativeDude
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