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Ptolemy's Universe: The Natural Philosophical and Ethical Foundations of Ptolemy's Astronomy
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Ptolemy^ Universe

Ptolemy's

Universe

Ptolemy's

Universe The Natural Philosophical and Ethical Foundations

ofPtolemys Astronomy

Liba Chaia Taub

OPEN

COURT

Chicago and LaSalle,

Illinois

frontispiece illustration is taken from: Sacro Bosco, Textus De Sphera, Paris, 1500. The cover illustration is from: [Sphaera mundi],

The

[Venice],

Erhard Ratdolt, 1485.

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1993 by

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1993

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Taub, Liba Chaia, 1954Ptolemy's universe: the natural philosophical and ethical foundations of Ptolemy's astronomy / Liba Chaia Taub. p.

cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8126-9228-4. ISBN 0-8126-9229-2 (pbk.) 1. Astronomy, Ancient. 2. Cosmology. 3. Ptolemy, 2nd cent.

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