The crime of Claudius Ptolemy

The crime of Claudius Ptolemy /

In Newton's view, Ptolemy was "the most successful fraud in the history of science". Newton shows that Ptolemy predominantly obtained the astronomical results described in his work The Almagest by computation, and not by the direct observations that Ptolemy described.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Newton, Robert R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1977.
Subjects:
Ptolemy, > active 2nd century.
Ptolemy, Claudius.
Ptolémée, Claude, > approximately 90-approximately 168.
Ptolemaeus, Claudius > 100-178
Ptolemaeus, Claudius, > Alexandrinus, > ca.100-ca.170.
Ptolemaeus, Claudius.
Geschichte.
Astronomers > Greece > Biography.
Astronomes > Grèce > Biographies.
39.01 history of astronomy.
Astronomy - Cartography. > [Literature] > 1977.
Geodesy. > [Literature] > 1977.
History of cartography. > [Literature] > 1977.
Astronomers.
Astronomie
Sterrenkundigen.
Wiskundigen.
Waarnemingen.
Bedrog.
Griekse oudheid.
Greece.
collective biographies.
Biographies.

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