REGIOMONTANUS 1496

Description

Epitoma in Almagestum Ptolemaei [edited by Johannes Baptista Abiosus, additions by Johannes Lucilius Santritter]. Venice: Johannes Hamman for Kaspar Grossch and Stephan Roemer, 31 August 1496

THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF PTOLEMY’S ALMAGEST IN PRINT.

Ptolemy’s work on astronomy summarised the achievements of earlier astronomers and its publication enabled its use by the next generations of astronomers such as Copernicus, Tycho, Kepler and Galileo.

 

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