News and Announcements
New Online Texts (March-July 2024)
Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos (Greek) [A.2]
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Pseudo-Ptolemy, De imaginibus super facies signorum [B.14]
… MoreNew Online Texts (February-May 2023)
Pseudo-Ptolemy, De occultatis [B.7]
… MoreNew Arabic transcriptions published on the PAL website
Ibn al-Haytham, Ḥall shukūk al-Majisṭī (transcribed by Paul Hullmeine)
… MoreA pre-Ptolemaic sensation!?! Hipparchus’s star catalogue rediscovered
Announcement in https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03296-1
… MoreFourth PAL volume published!
Editing and Analysing Numerical Tables. Towards a Digital Information System for the History of Astral Sciences
… MoreNew Online Texts (June-August 2022)
Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. Philipp Melanchthon) [A.2.11]
… MoreThird PAL volume now published!
Ptolemaic Tradition and Islamic Innovation: The Astronomical Tables of Kūshyār ibn Labban
… MorePaul Hullmeine awarded the Karl-Thiemig-Stiftung Prize
We are delighted to announce that PAL doctoral candidate Paul Hullmeine was awarded the Academy Prize of the Karl-Thiemig-Stiftung for the Promotion of Young Researchers (EUR 3,000) for his PhD dissertation Ptolemaic Astronomy in the Cosmological Debates in Classical Arabic Thought.
… MoreWas ist europäisch? by Dag Nikolaus Hasse
Dag Nikolaus Hasse just published Was ist europäisch? Zur Überwindung kolonialer und romantischer Denkformen, Ditzingen: Reclam, 2021, 137 pp.
… MoreNew Online Texts (October-November 2021)
Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. William of Moerbeke) [A.2.6]
… MoreLes théories de la vision by Colette Dufossé
Colette Dufossé just published Les théories de la vision dans les mondes grec et latin du IVe au XIIe siècle. Entre permanence et renouveau, Paris: Champion, 2021, 606 pp.
… MoreTalk by Pouyan Rezvani in TeTra Online (Monday, 9 August 2021)
Pouyan Rezvani will give a talk with the title ‘Between education and patronage: a classification of Arabic astrolabe texts in the 10th and 11th centuries A.D.’ in the ‘Text and Transmission Joint Research Seminar’ (TeTra Online). This talk will take place on 9 August 2021 at 10 am CET. See https://theo.kuleuven.be/en/research/research_units/ru_bible/tetra-seminar for further information.
MoreThe Greek and Medieval Ptolemy (Monday 26 July 2021)
PAL is co-organising a symposium on The Greek and Medieval Ptolemy at the 26th International Congress of History of Science and Technology (Prague, 25-31 July) on 26 July 2021.
… MoreAstroBibl has been updated!
New Online Texts (May-June 2021)
al-Battānī, Sharḥ al-Maqālāt al-arbaʿ fī l-qaḍāʾ bi-l-nujūm ʿalā l-ḥawādith (C.2.0900), by Nadine Löhr: https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/ms/689/1016/transcription/1
… MoreNew Online Texts (April 2021)
Ptolemy, Quadripartitum, tr. Hernán Núñez de Guzmán (A.2.8), by Beatriz Alfaro Pérez: https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/ms/211/305/transcription/1#1r
… MoreBīrūnī's Treatises on the Astrolabe published by Pouyan Rezvani
Pouyan Rezvani's new book just appeared:
… MoreNew online texts (February-March 2021)
Ptolemy, Almagesti, tr. Sicily c. 1150 (A.1.1), by Colette Dufossé: https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/ms/227/327/transcription/1
… MoreNew online Almagest (Latin)
A transcription of the 'Sicilian' Almagest (A.1.1) is now available at https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/ms/227/327/transcription/1
MoreThe Light Ages by Seb Falk
Seb Falk, PAL Research Fellow 2020, published The Light Ages. A Medieval Journey of Discovery.
… MoreAstroBibl has been updated!
Talk by Henry Zepeda on ‘Geometry and geometrical reasoning in Peurbach and Regiomontanus’ Epitome Almagesti’
On Monday, 18 January 2021 at 4 pm CET, the PAL research associate Henry Zepeda gives a presentation entitled ‘Geometry and geometrical reasoning in Peurbach and Regiomontanus’ Epitome Almagesti’ in the workshop “Geometrical reasoning and visual culture: shaping astronomy and other scientiae mediae” of the ERC project ALFA: Shaping a European scientific scene: Alfonsine astronomy at the Paris Observatory. This workshop will take place online and a zoom link can be obtained from the organi…
MoreSecond PAL volume now published!
Ptolemy’s Science of the Stars in the Middle Ages
… MoreFellowships 2020
The PAL Research Fellowships 2020 were awarded to:
… MoreFirst PAL volume now published!
The First Latin Treatise on Ptolemy’s Astronomy: The Almagesti minor (c. 1200)
… MoreFirst International Workshop of the project Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus
The project Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus (PAL), in cooperation with the project ALFA (Alfonsine Astronomy, at the Paris Observatory) organises its first international workshop on Monday through Wednesday, 19-21 November 2018. Under the title “Pre-Modern Astronomical and Astrological Data in Tabular Form: Storage, Edition and Mathematical Analysis”, 12 international experts on astronomical and astrological tables in different cultures will present methods to critically edit and mathematicall…
MoreStudentische Hilfskraft opportunity (from May 2018 onwards)
Three research fellows invited for 2018
We are pleased to announce that three research fellowships have been granted for the year 2018 to:
… MorePAL Fellowships 2018
The call for applications for our fellowships for a period from 1 to 4 months during the year 2018 has been distributed through various channels. The full text of the call can also be found on our website under this link.
MoreJob vacancy: One or two new Hilfskräfte with good knowledge of Arabic
The project Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus is searching for one or two Hilfskräfte with a good account of written Arabic, starting from 1 October 2017 or as soon as possible thereafter. The full text of the job description can be found at http://ptolemaeus.badw.de/jobs
MoreTwo research fellows invited for 2016
The project Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus invited two research fellows for the year 2016:
… MoreJordanus database now online at Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus
JORDANUS, An International Catalogue of Mediaeval Scientific Manuscripts (ed. Menso Folkerts) is now available online on the server of the project Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus at the address: jordanus.ptolemaeus.badw.de
… MorePAL Fellowships 2016
The call for applications for our fellowships for a period from 1 to 4 months during the year 2016 has been distributed through various channels. The full text of the call can also be found on our website under this link.
MoreFirst Ptolemy Conference, Warburg Institute 5-7 November 2015
Ptolemy’s Science of the Stars in the Middle Ages
… MoreLaunch of PAL Website
The website of the project Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus has been launched on August 15, 2014. For the time being it contains basic information on the project and the people working on it. In the future it will be developed into a major research tool for scholars interested in the Ptolemaic tradition and will serve as a communication interface for these scholars.
MoreTwo Latin paleographers hired
The project Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus appointed two 50% Latin paleographers, who will transcribe Latin Ptolemaic texts. The two new members of the team are Dr. Monika Isépy (LMU Munich) for the period July-December 2014 and Dr. Irina Galynina (Freiburg) for the period October 2014-September 2016.
MoreFour research fellows invited for 2014
The project Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus invited four research fellows for the summer and autumn of 2014:
… MoreProject director celebrates 45th birthday!
The director of the project Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus, Prof. Dr. Dag Nikolaus Hasse (University of Würzburg), celebrated his 45th birthday on 3 March 2014. We wish him the very best for the coming years and hope that he will lead the project in good health until its predicted end in 2037.
… MoreOfficial opening of the project
On 14 February 2014 the project Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus was officially presented at the Deutsches Museum. Introductions were given by Prof. Helmuth Trischler (Research Director of the Deutsches Museum), Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Hoffmann (President of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities) and Prof. Dr. Menso Folkerts (Chairman of the Commission for the History of Science of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities). Then the project was presented by its director, Prof. Dr. D…
MorePtolemaeus Arabus et Latinus on Austrian radio
The radio program Dimensionen - die Welt der Wissenschaft of the Austrian radio ORF on Monday, 20 January 2014, was devoted to Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus. Under the title "Ptolemäus neu gelesen. Ein wissenschaftlicher Irrtum und sein kulturelles Erbe", Sabrina Adlbrecht presented our project on the basis of interviews with Prof. Dr. Dag Nikolaus Hasse, Prof. Dr. P. Kunitzsch und Dr. Benno van Dalen. The website of this radio program can be found here. The program is no longer accessible…
MoreSpecial issue of Akademie Aktuell on PAL
The third issue in the year 2013 of Akademie Aktuell, the official journal of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (in German), is devoted to the project Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus. In articles aimed at a non-specialist audience, Dag Nikolaus Hasse, David Juste, Benno van Dalen, Alexander Jones, Paul Kunitzsch, Charles Burnett and Noel Swerdlow elucidate various aspects of the project. The whole issue can be downloaded here.
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