ecliptic for specific stars. The parapegma above the dials reads (square brackets indicate inferred text): The parapegma beneath the dials reads: At least...
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another work, the Phaseis (Risings of the Fixed Stars), Ptolemy gave a parapegma, a star calendar or almanac, based on the appearances and disappearances...
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multiplicity, crowd, assembly. Similarly, the Ancient Arabs begin their old parapegma type calendar, that of the anwā, with M45 under the name of الثريّا al-Ṯurayyā...
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primus, Antwerp; (1629) De diluvio liber secundus (incomplete); (1630) Parapegma ou Kalendrier pour l’an de Iesus Christ MDCXXXI; (1636) In id Psalmorum...
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constellation. However, Ptolemy does attribute several seasonal indications (parapegma) to Conon. Conon was a friend of the mathematician Archimedes whom he...
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theory of homocentric spheres. He also contributed to the calendar and the parapegma literature. Eudoxus' model of planetary motion survives as summarized...
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be ploughed between the Kalends (1st) and the Ides (13th). The Aëtius parapegma is an almanac that appears as a chapter in the 6th-century Tetrabiblos...
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extended by astronomical research to the creation of star calendars known as parapegmas. They were stone or wooden tablets listing a sequence of astronomical...
25 KB (3,790 words) - 01:06, 4 September 2024
There is also a later Byzantine epitome, or summary, of his work. A parapegma or calendar of star risings and settings and weather changes is also extant...
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