Theon of Smyrna: Book on Astronomy
Theonis Smyrnaei Liber de Astronomia (1849)
First from Latin
English translations of this work exist from another source language, but this specific text has never been translated.
The work 'Liber de Astronomia' is a Latin edition of a portion of Theon of Smyrna's Greek work 'Expositio rerum mathematicarum ad legendum Platonem utilium'. While an English translation of the Greek original exists (Lawlor & Lawlor, 1979), there is no evidence of a translation of the 1849 Latin text itself. The Latin text is a distinct scholarly artifact, and no English translation of this specific Latin version has been identified in the searched catalogs.
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astronomyphilosophyneoplatonismmathematics
Theon of Smyrna maps the mechanical clockwork of the ancient heavens for a Platonic audience. Readers will uncover how early astronomers calculated planetary motion and justified the spherical nature of the Earth.
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