Ptolemy's Almagest: Fourteen Centuries of Neglect

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Oct 1984

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Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol.94, no.6, p.256-262

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Historical: Ptolemy, Copernicus

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Ptolemy's Almagest remained the ultimate in astronomical theory for more than a millennium. Yet Ptolemy's system contains internal inconsistencies so evident and disturbing as to raise the question of why the Copernican Revolution was so long delayed. Historical breaks in research in the Ptolemaic tradition, resulting in the interment and then the resurrection of that tradition, help to explain its seemingly long lifetime.

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