The 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.
Session 1 https://ichst2021.confea.net/en/eventprogramme?programme_block_id=193
- 10:00 Nathan Sidoli: Ptolemy’s Trigonometry in Detail
- 10:30 David Juste: Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus in 2021: Achievements and outlook
- 11:00 Paul Hullmeine: The Dissolution of the Carrying Sphere in Ptolemy’s Planetary Hypotheses and its Reception in the Medieval Arabic Tradition
- 11:30 Pouyan Rezvani: Traces of the Unrevised Translation of the Almagest by Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn
Session 2 https://ichst2021.confea.net/en/event-programme?programme_block_id=194
- 12:30 Razieh-Sadat Monzavi: Tracing Arabic translations of the Almagest in al-Farghani’s Elements of Astronomy
- 13:30 Nadine Löhr: An Almost Forgotten Contribution to the Tetrabiblos
- 14:00 Hamid Bohloul: (Dis)continuity of Ptolemaic Planetary Distances and Sizes in Arabic Astronomy
- 14:30 Emanuele Rovati: A Philological Chimera: Pseudo-Ptolemy’s Book of the Fruit and its Transmission
Session 3 https://ichst2021.confea.net/en/event-programme?programme_block_id=192
- 15:00 Victor Gysembergh, Alexander Jones, and Emanuel Zingg: Greek Texts by and Related to Ptolemy Recovered from the Late Antique Palimpsest Ambrosiana L 99 sup.
- 15:30 Gonzalo L. Recio: The Ptolemaic Analysis of the Hipparchian Lunar Model
- 16:00 Christián C. Carman: The Gravitational Influence of Jupiter on the Ptolemaic value for the Eccentricity of Saturn
- 16:30 Benno van Dalen, Ptolemy’s Tradition of Astronomical Tables in the Islamic World