Research Catalog

Title

Cleomedes' lectures on astronomy : a translation of the heavens / Cleomedes ; with an introduction and commentary by Alan C. Brown and Robert B. Todd.

Author

Cleomedes

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bowen, Alan C.
• Todd, Robert B.

Description

xvi, 238 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This volume contains a clear and idiomatic English translation - the first ever - of The Heavens, along with an informative introduction, detailed notes, and technical diagrams. This important work will now be accessible to specialists in both ancient philosophy and science and to readers interested in the history of astronomy and cosmology but with no knowledge of ancient Greek." "The Heavens stands in the tradition of ancient philosophical and astronomical literature from the time of Plato and Aristotle to that of Ptolemy and is an excellent introduction to some basic principles of ancient astronomy. Its technical information includes demonstrations of a geocentric cosmology, measurements of the Earth's circumference and Sun's size, a brief account of planetary motion, descriptions of the Earth and its climatic zones, and accounts of lunar eclipses and phases."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Hellenistic culture and society ; 42

Uniform Title

• Elementary theory of the heavens
• Hellenistic culture and society ; 42.

Alternative Title

• Elementary theory of the heavens
• Lectures on astronomy

Subjects

• Astronomy > Early works to 1800
• Astronomy, Greek

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-221) and indexes.

Contents

Translation of Cleomedes' The Heavens: Book One -- Translation of Cleomedes' The Heavens: Book Two -- Translation of Cleomedes' The Heavens: Figures -- App. Posidonius on Physics and Astronomy (Fragment 18 EK) -- Passages from Cleomedes in Collections of Texts.

ISBN

0520233255 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2003055222

OCLC

• ocm52430865
• SCSB-4847373

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries