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==Bibliography== ===Works of Ptolemy=== * {{cite book |first=Claudius |last=Ptolemaios |author-link=Ptolemy |year=1519 |title=Quadripartitum |publisher=Ottaviano Scoto (1.) eredi & C. |location=Venezia |language=la |url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=13189467 }} * {{cite book |first=Claudius |last=Ptolemaios |author-link=Ptolemy |year=1541 |title=[Opere] |language=la |publisher=Heinrich Petri |location=Basel |url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=4657866 }} * {{cite book |first=Claudius |last=Ptolemaios |author-link=Ptolemy |year=1559 |title=In Claudii Ptolemaei Quadripartitum |language=la |volume= |publisher=Heinrich Petri |location=Basel, CH |url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=12853586 }} * {{cite book |first=Claudius |last=Ptolemaios |author-link=Ptolemy |title=Quadripartitum |language=la |year=1622 |publisher=Johann Bringer |location=Frankfurt am Main |url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=4658973 }} * {{cite book |first=Claudius |last=Ptolemaios |author-link=Ptolemy |year=1658 |title=Quadripartitum |language=la |publisher=Paolo Frambotto |location=Padova |url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=13235070 }} * {{cite book |first=Claudius |last=Ptolemaios |author-link=Ptolemy |year=1663 |title=De iudicandi facultate et animi principatu |publisher=Sebastian Cramoisy (1.) & Sebastian Mabre-Cramoisy |location=Paris |language=la |url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=4659628 }} * {{cite book |first=Claudius |last=Ptolemaios |author-link=Ptolemy |year=1663 |title=De iudicandi facultate et animi principatu |publisher=Adriaen Vlacq |location=Den Haag |language=la |url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=4660219 }} * {{cite book |first=Claudius |last=Ptolemaios |author-link=Ptolemy |year=1682 |title=Harmonicorum libri |publisher=Theatrum Sheldonianum |location=Oxford, UK |language=la |url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=4657131 }} * {{cite book |first=Claudius |last=Ptolemaios |author-link=Ptolemy |title=Planisphaerium |language=la |url=https://www.sciamvs.org/files/SCIAMVS_08_037-139_Sidoli_Berggren.pdf |via=sciamvs.org }} — medieval Arabic translations and an English translation of those ===References=== {{refbegin|colwidth=25em|small=yes}} * {{cite journal |last = Bagrow |first=L. |date = 1 January 1945 |title = The origin of Ptolemy's ''Geographia'' |journal = [[Geografiska Annaler]] |volume = 27 |pages=318–387 |jstor = 520071 |issn = 1651-3215 |doi = 10.2307/520071 }} * {{cite book |first=Claudius |last=Ptolemaios |author-link=Ptolemy |editor1=Berggren, J. Lennart |editor2=Jones, Alexander |year=2000 |title=Ptolemy's ''Geography'': An annotated translation of the theoretical chapters |place=Princeton, NJ / Oxford, UK |publisher=[[Princeton University Press]] |isbn=0-691-01042-0 }} * {{cite journal |last=Gingerich |first=O. |author-link=Owen Gingerich |year=1980 |title=Was Ptolemy a fraud? |journal=[[Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society]] |volume=21 |page=253 |bibcode=1980QJRAS..21..253G |url=https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1980QJRAS..21..253G |via=The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System }} *{{cite journal |first=Bernard R. |last=Goldstein |author-link=Bernard R. Goldstein |date=24 February 1978 |title=Casting doubt on Ptolemy: ''The Crime of Claudius Ptolemy''. Robert R. Newton. |journal=[[Science (journal)|Science]] |volume=199 |issue=4331 |pages=872–873 |doi=10.1126/science.199.4331.872.a |pmid=17757580 |s2cid=239876775 |url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.199.4331.872.a }} * {{cite book |first=Thomas, Sir |last=Heath |year=1921 |title=A History of Greek Mathematics |place=Oxford, UK |publisher=Clarendon Press }} * {{cite book |first=Claudius |last=Ptolemaios |author-link=Ptolemy |editor-last=Hübner |editor-first=Wolfgang |year=1998 |title=Claudius Ptolemaeus, Opera quae exstant omnia |language=la |trans-title=The complete existing works of Claudius Ptolemy |volume=III |at=Fascia 1: {{math|Αποτελεσματικα}} (''Tetrabiblos'') |publisher=De Gruyter |isbn=978-3-598-71746-8 |series=Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana }} — The most recent edition of the Greek text of Ptolemy's astrological work, based on earlier editions by F. Boll and E. Boer. * {{cite book |first=Claudius |last=Ptolemaios |author-link=Ptolemy |editor-last=Lejeune |editor-first=A. |year=1989 |title=L'Optique de Claude Ptolémée dans la version latine d'après l'arabe de l'émir Eugène de Sicile |language=fr, la |trans-title=The ''Optics'' of Claudius Ptolemy in the Latin version based on the Arabic of Emir Eugene of Sicily |series=Collection de travaux de l'Académie International d'Histoire des Sciences |volume=31 |place=Leiden |publisher=E.J.Brill }} — Latin text with French translation * {{cite journal |last=Lewis |first=H.A.G. |year=1979 |title=Review of ''The Crime of Claudius Ptolemy'', by R.R. Newton |journal=[[Imago Mundi]] |volume=31 |pages=105–107 |doi=10.1080/03085697908592494 |jstor=1150735 }} * {{cite book |last=Neugebauer |first=Otto |year=1975 |title=A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy |volume=I-III |publisher=Springer Verlag |location=Berlin, DE / New York, NY }} * {{cite book |editor=Nobbe, C.F.A. |year=1843 |title=Claudii Ptolemaei ''Geographia'' |language=la |trans-title=Claudius Ptolemy's ''Geography'' |place=Leipzig |publisher=Carolus Tauchnitus }} — Until Stückelberger (2006), this was the most recent edition of the complete Greek text. * {{cite journal |first1=R.H.J. |last1=Peerlings |first2=F. |last2=Laurentius |first3=J. |last3=van den Bovenkamp |title=The watermarks in the Rome editions of Ptolemy's ''Cosmography'' and more |journal=[[Quaerendo]] |volume=47 |pages=307–327 |year=2017 |issue=3–4 |doi=10.1163/15700690-12341392 }} * Peerlings, R.H.J., Laurentius F., van den Bovenkamp J.,(2018) ''New findings and discoveries in the 1507/8 Rome edition of Ptolemy's Cosmography'', In Quaerendo 48: 139–162, 2018. * {{cite book |first=Claudius |last=Ptolemaios |author-link=Ptolemy |year=1980 |orig-year=1930 |title=Die Harmonielehre des Klaudios Ptolemaios'' |editor=Düring, Ingemar |series=Göteborgs högskolas årsskrift |volume=36 |place=Göteborg / New York, NY |publisher=Elanders boktr. aktiebolag. (1930) / Garland Publishing (1980) |edition=reprint }} * {{cite book |first1=Claudius |last1=Ptolemaios |author1-link=Ptolemy |last2=Solomon |first2=Jon |year=2000 |title=Harmonics |translator=Solomon, Jon |series=Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava, Supplementum |volume=203 |place=Leiden / Boston, MA |publisher=[[Brill Publishers]] |isbn=90-04-11591-9 |id=0169–8958 }} * {{cite journal |last=Smith |first=A.M. |year=1996 |title=''Ptolemy's Theory of Visual Perception'': An English translation of the ''Optics'' with introduction and commentary |type=book review |journal=[[Transactions of the American Philosophical Society]] |volume=86, Part 2 |place=Philadelphia, PA |publisher=The American Philosophical Society }} * {{cite book |first=Claudius |last=Ptolemaios |author-link=Ptolemy |editor-last=Stevenson |editor-first=Edward Luther |translator=E.L. Stevenson |year=1991 |orig-year=1932 |title=Claudius Ptolemy: ''The Geography'' |place=New York, NY |publisher=New York Public Library, 1932 / Dover, 1991 |edition=Reprint }} — This is the only complete English translation of Ptolemy's ''Geography'', but it is marred by numerous mistakes; and placenames are given in Latinised forms, rather than in the Greek, as in the original. * {{cite book |first=Claudius |last=Ptolemaios |author-link=Ptolemy |editor1-first=Alfred |editor1-last=Stückelberger |editor2-first=Gerd |editor2-last=Graßhoff |year=2006 |title=Ptolemaios, Handbuch der Geographie, Griechisch-Deutsch |language=de |trans-title=Ptolemy, ''Geography Handbook'', Greek-German |place=Basel, CH |publisher=Schwabe Verlag |isbn=978-3-7965-2148-5 }} — Massive 2 vol, {{nobr|{{gaps|1|018}} pp.}} academic edition of ''Geography'' by a team of a dozen scholars that takes account of all known manuscripts, with facing Greek and German text, with footnotes on manuscript variations, color maps, and a CD with the geographical data. * {{cite encyclopedia | first = Gerald J. | last = Toomer | author-link = Gerald J. Toomer | year = 1970 | title = Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemæus) | editor-last = Gillispie | editor-first = Charles | encyclopedia = [[Dictionary of Scientific Biography]] | volume = 11 | pages = 186–206 | location = New York, NY | publisher = Scribner & American Council of Learned Societies | isbn = 978-0-684-10114-9 | url = http://www.u.arizona.edu/~aversa/scholastic/Dictionary%20of%20Scientific%20Biography/Ptolemy%20(Toomer).pdf | access-date = 25 April 2011 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120314024102/http://www.u.arizona.edu/~aversa/scholastic/Dictionary%20of%20Scientific%20Biography/Ptolemy%20(Toomer).pdf | archive-date = 14 March 2012 }} * ''Ptolemy's Almagest'', Translated and annotated by [[G. J. Toomer]], 1998. Princeton University Press * {{cite journal |first=Nicholas |last=Wade |author-link=Nicholas Wade |year=1977 |title=Scandal in the Heavens: Renowned Astronomer Accused of Fraud |journal=[[Science (journal)|Science]] |volume=198 |issue=4318 |pages=707–709 |doi=10.1126/science.198.4318.707 |bibcode=1977Sci...198..707W |url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.198.4318.707 }} {{refend}}
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