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Ptolemy Star Catalog

Ptolemy Star Catalog - Paris, bibliothèque nationale de france (bnf). The star positions in ptolemy’s catalog are given in the form of ecliptical coordinates. First up is ptolemy’s catalog of stars from his book μαθηματικὴ σύνταξις otherwise known as the. However, there were some holdouts. In his almagest, ptolemy devotes books 7 and. Scholarly history of commentary on ptolemy’s star catalog: Ptolemy’s star catalogue though we pay no heed to ptolemy’s geometry today, his star catalogue remains the heart of the modern northern sky. This series is largely based on gerd grasshoff’s 1990 book the history of ptolemy’s star. The maps are enumerated in the same order as the constellations in ptolemy's catalog. The star maps below represent the stars of ptolemy's catalog, one constellation at a time, along with the corresponding stars according to modern catalogs.

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