The Legacy of Ptolemy’s Almagest

Initial Conditions: A Physics History Podcast ›

49:03 | Sep 29th, 2022

This episode dives into the story of the oldest book in NBLA’s Wenner Collection: a 1528 Latin translation of the Almagest. Claudius Ptolemy wrote the Almagest, originally titled Mathēmatikē Syntaxis,...Show More