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| Acknowledgements | ||
| A Note on Editions and Abbreviations | ||
| Illustrations | ||
| About the Illustrations | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | Ptolemy and the Historians | 7 |
| 2 | The Philosophical Preface to the Syntaxis | 19 |
| 3 | The Hypotheses Underlying the Syntaxis | 39 |
| I | That the heaven moves spherically | 45 |
| II | That the Earth, taken as a whole, is sensibly spherical | 61 |
| III | That the Earth is in the middle of the heavens, with regard to the senses | 71 |
| IV | That the Earth has the ratio of a point relative to the size of the heavens | 79 |
| V | That the Earth makes no motion involving change of place | 84 |
| VI | That there are two different primary motions in the heavens | 100 |
| 4 | Ptolemy's Cosmology | 105 |
| 5 | The Divinity of the Celestial Bodies and the Ethical Motivation for the Study of the Heavens | 135 |
| I | The Greek Cosmological Tradition and the Search for the Divine | 138 |
| II | The Ethical Motivation to Study Astronomy | 146 |
| Notes | 155 | |
| Bibliography | 173 | |
| Index | 185 |
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Keith Shaw
reviewed Ptolemy's Universe on January 03, 2011
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