Greek and Roman astronomers



Imago Mundi: Agrippa agrippa
        Imago Mundi - Agrippa

Biography: JRASC, '''75''' (1981) 29 harvard full
        1981JRASC..75...29B Page 1:29

An article on Cleomedes' description of atmospheric enlargement from ''Perception'' (2000)
        Perception abstract: Cleomedes (c. 1st century AD) on the celestial illusion, atmospheric enlargement, and size - distance invariance

A biography of Cleomedes on a mathematical site www groups and mathematicians
        Cleomedes summary

How the Greeks estimated the distances to the moon and sun physics virginia lectures
        How High the Moon?

Measuring the Earth market
        Astronomy On-Line: How to measure the size of the Earth

Biography at Encyclopedia Britannica
        

The Ancient Library smith
        Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1069 (v. 2)

Imago Mundi: Euctemon
        Imago Mundi - Euctémon.

University of St. Andrews biography www groups and mathematicians
        Geminus

Technology Museum of Thessaloniki entry
        TMTh:: GEMINUS OF RHODES

Schaefer's site on the Farnese Atlas
        Discovery of The Lost Star Catalog of Hipparchus on The Farnese Atlas - Press Release

A brief view by Carmen Rush on Hipparchus' stellar catalogue ottawa astronomy
        Astro-Fact

David Ulansey about Hipparchus's understanding of the precession well user
        Hipparchus's Understanding of the Precession

Cavendish Laboratory briefly about Hipparchus' celestial dynamics and generally about the precession of the Earth's main axis
        

Biographical page at the University of Oregon
        

University of Cambridge's Page about Hipparchus' sole surviving work cam starry
        Hipparchus on a Poem

Biographical page at the University of Cambridge
        Hipparchus Biography

Biographical page at the University of St. Andrews
        Hipparchus

A lot of original Wikipedian articles (upto 2002-09-20) were transposed here site
        Malaspina Great Books - Hipparchus (c. 190 BCE)

Hipparchus mentioned as Hipparchos in a history of mankind causeries antiquity
        

Ptolemy: the Geography penelope gazetteer periods roman ptolemy home
        LacusCurtius • Ptolemy's Geography

Greek Astronomy www groups and
        Greek astronomy

Meton of Athens
        TMTh:: METON OF ATHENS

Technology Museum of [[Thessaloniki
        TMTh:: POSIDONIUS OF SYRIA

Theosophy Library Online theosophy teachers
        

Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy): Representation, Understanding, and Mathematical Labeling of the Spherical Earth classics content
        CSISS Classics - Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy): Representation, Understanding, and Mathematical Labeling of the Spherical Earth

History of Cartography including a discussion of the Geographica
        The Newberry Library: Smith Center Publications

Ptolemy's Geography of Northwestern Europe
        Die Römer in Ostfriesland

Ptolemy's Geography of Asia - Selected problems of Ptolemy's Geography of Asia (currently in German)
        Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy) Geographie (Cosmographia) Home

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