Theodore Metochites and the Byzantine study of Ptolemy in the 14th century

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1. Theodore Metochites and the Byzantine study of Ptolemy in the 14th century

Mme Christine Roughan (Princeton University)

In the beginning of the fourteenth century the Byzantine scholar and statesman Theodore Metochites (1270–1332) embarked upon a project to produce an epitome of Ptolemy’s Almagest. His resulting work, the Stoicheiosis astronomike, does not draw on any of the more recent astronomical parameters that had already entered Greek circulation from Arabic and Persian sources, a fact which stands out...