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We will now continue our story of how the solar system was conceptualized and mapped in Europe. We left Europe in Chapter 2 with a discussion of Neoplatonism. Although this was an influential philosophy, the dominant world view at the end of Roman times was that of Ptolemy and his Almagest. However, the works of Ptolemy disappeared in Europe over subsequent centuries, along with Greek mathematical astronomy.
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McCluskey, Astronomies and Cultures in Early Medieval Europe.
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Dreyer, A History of Astronomy from Tholes to Kepler, 200 edn, pp. 220-223
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Ibid., pp. 244-245.
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Gingerich, The Great Copemicus Chase and Other Adventures in Astronomical History.
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For a nice discussion of the characteristics of the Toledan,Alfonsine, and other medieval astronomical tables in Europe, see Chabas, Journal for the History of Astronomy, vol. 43, pp. 269-286.
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Copemicus, On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres, Wallis, p. 19.
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Paschos and Sotiroudis, The Schemata of the Stars: Byzantine Astronomy from AD 1300.
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Jones, Later Greek and Byzantine astronomy. In C. Walker (ed.),Astronomy Before the Telescope, p. 108.
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Paschos and Sotiroudis, The Schemata of the Stars: Byzantine Astronomy from AD 1300,p.31.
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Ibid.
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Dreyer, A History of Astronomy from Tholes to Kepler, 2nd edn, pp. 232-235.
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Thomdike,L. The “Sphere” of Sacroboscoandlts Commentators, pp. 42-43. Tbisbook also contains a Latin text and an English translation, plus several later commentaries, of De Sphaera.
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Dreyer,A History of Astronomy from Tholes to Kepler, 2nd edn, p. 233.
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Jardine, Wordly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance, pp. 50-53.
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Ibid., p. 63.
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Ibid., p. 198.
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For more on volvelles, see Kanas, Star Maps, 2ndedn,pp. 234-241.
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Kanas, N. (2014). Earth-Centered World Views in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. In: Solar System Maps. Springer Praxis Books. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0896-3_4
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