Geminos’s Introduction to the Phenomena: A Translation and Study of a Hellenistic Survey of Astronomy

Description

This book is generously illustrated with diagrams from medieval manuscripts of Geminos’s text, as well as drawings and photographs of ancient astronomical instruments. It will be of great interest to students of the history of science, to classicists, and to professional and amateur astronomers who seek to learn more about the origins of their science.”

• Author: Geminus, James Evans, J. L. Berggren
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Published: 2006-10-29
• Pages: 345
• ISBN-13: 9780691123394