VMs: OT: Ptolemy

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,

many books have been written about Ptolemy's
work and all answers can be found there. I 
suspect that a web search will even be sufficient.

His work includes a detailed description of the
methods used. Spherical trigonometry etc.

The one question not answered is whether the
star tables are his own work (as he
claims) or whether he used Hipparchus' data.
This is a never-ending controversy of which
we have no parallel in the study of the Voynich
MS, which I hope we can concentrate on here.

Cheers, Rene


		
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