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Ptolemy's treatise on the meteoroscope recovered

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2023
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Zingg, E., Gysembergh, V., & Jones, A. (2023). Ptolemy’s treatise on the meteoroscope recovered. Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 77, 221–240. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-022-00302-w

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The eighth-century Latin manuscript Milan, Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, L 99 Sup. contains fifteen palimpsest leaves previously used for three Greek scientific texts: a text of unknown authorship on mathematical mechanics and catoptrics, known as the Fragmentum Mathematicum Bobiense (three leaves), Ptolemy's Analemma (six leaves), and an astronomical text that has hitherto remained unidentified and almost entirely unread (six leaves). We report here on the current state of our research on this last text, based on multispectral ima

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  • Zingg, Emanuel
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  • Gysembergh, Victor
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  • Jones, Alexander
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77

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2

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221

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240

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English

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2023-03-09

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2023-03-20

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0003-9519

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47 since deposited on 2023-03-20
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122 since deposited on 2023-03-20
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Zingg, E., Gysembergh, V., & Jones, A. (2023). Ptolemy’s treatise on the meteoroscope recovered. Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 77, 221–240. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-022-00302-w

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