Georg Peurbach, Tractatus super propositiones Ptolemei de sinubus et chordis [C.1.20]

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We are pleased to announce two new publications in our series Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus:

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Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos (Greek) [A.2]

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Pseudo-Ptolemy, De imaginibus super facies signorum [B.14]

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Pseudo-Ptolemy, De occultatis [B.7]

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Ibn al-Haytham, Ḥall shukūk al-Majisṭī (transcribed by Paul Hullmeine)

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Announcement in https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03296-1

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Editing and Analysing Numerical Tables. Towards a Digital Information System for the History of Astral Sciences

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Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. Philipp Melanchthon) [A.2.11]

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Ptolemaic Tradition and Islamic Innovation: The Astronomical Tables of Kūshyār ibn Labban

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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.

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Dag Nikolaus Hasse just published Was ist europäisch? Zur Überwindung kolonialer und romantischer Denkformen, Ditzingen: Reclam, 2021, 137 pp.

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Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. William of Moerbeke) [A.2.6]

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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.

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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.

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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.

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https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/astrobibl

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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

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Ptolemy, Quadripartitum, tr. Hernán Núñez de Guzmán (A.2.8), by Beatriz Alfaro Pérez: https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/ms/211/305/transcription/1#1r

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Pouyan Rezvani's new book just appeared:

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Ptolemy, Almagesti, tr. Sicily c. 1150 (A.1.1), by Colette Dufossé: https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/ms/227/327/transcription/1

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A transcription of the 'Sicilian' Almagest (A.1.1) is now available at https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/ms/227/327/transcription/1

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Seb Falk, PAL Research Fellow 2020, published The Light Ages. A Medieval Journey of Discovery.

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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… More

Ptolemy’s Science of the Stars in the Middle Ages

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The PAL Research Fellowships 2020 were awarded to:

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The First Latin Treatise on Ptolemy’s Astronomy: The Almagesti minor (c. 1200)

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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… More

See https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/jobs.

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We are pleased to announce that three research fellowships have been granted for the year 2018 to:

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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.

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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

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The project Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus invited two research fellows for the year 2016:

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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

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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.

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Ptolemy’s Science of the Stars in the Middle Ages

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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.

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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.

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The project Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus invited four research fellows for the summer and autumn of 2014:

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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.

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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… More

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… More

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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