When was ptolemy's star catalogue in ?Almagest? compiled in reality? Statistical analysis

Autor:	V. V. Kalashnikov, Anatoliĭ Timofeevich Fomenko, G. V. Nosovsky
Rok vydání:	1989
Předmět:	Stars Epoch (reference date) Applied Mathematics Ptolemy's table of chords Statistical analysis Celestial sphere Astrophysics Star (graph theory) Star catalogue Mathematics
Zdroj:	Acta Applicandae Mathematicae. 17:203-229
ISSN:	1572-9036 0167-8019
DOI:	10.1007/bf00047071
Popis:	This work is devoted to describing new statistical and geometrical procedures for dating ancient star catalogues considering numerical data contained in these catalogues and the known real configurations of stars on the celestial sphere. The method was tested on several star catalogues whose dates are well known (Tycho Brahe, etc.) and on several artificially generated star catalogues. Then the same method was applied to the Almagest. The results obtained do not confirm the traditional dating of the Almagest (2nd century AD or 2nd century BC) but shift its dating to the Arabian epoch: 600–1300 AD.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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