Studies in ancient and medieval scienceNoonday Press, 1961 - Science |
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Robert Palter. thereby introducing Christians to the Ptolemaic system , while at the same time his translations , made in collaboration with Gondisalvi , familiarized the Latins with the physical and metaphysical doctrines of Aristotle ...
Robert Palter. thereby introducing Christians to the Ptolemaic system , while at the same time his translations , made in collaboration with Gondisalvi , familiarized the Latins with the physical and metaphysical doctrines of Aristotle ...
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... Ptolemy , though with modifi- cations . It was particularly in Spain that the opposition to the Ptolemaic system of eccentrics and epicycles came to the front , be- ing intimately connected with the rapid rise of Aristotelian phi ...
... Ptolemy , though with modifi- cations . It was particularly in Spain that the opposition to the Ptolemaic system of eccentrics and epicycles came to the front , be- ing intimately connected with the rapid rise of Aristotelian phi ...
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... Ptolemy's Catalogue.17 Other manuscripts from the fourteenth century show that various teachers at Paris continued to expound the Ptolemaic system , with or without spheres . At the beginning of the century Aegidius , a na- tive of Rome ...
... Ptolemy's Catalogue.17 Other manuscripts from the fourteenth century show that various teachers at Paris continued to expound the Ptolemaic system , with or without spheres . At the beginning of the century Aegidius , a na- tive of Rome ...
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