History of the Royal Society: From Its Institution to the End of the Eighteenth Century, Volume 1Abridgement of the philosophical transactions from 1665 to the end of the year 1800. |
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... Ptolemy Herophilus & Soter ; and Erasistratus , physician to Antiochus , King .of Syria , made great improvements in anatomy , or rather indeed laid the foundation of the science . * The reader will find a very detailed account of the ...
... Ptolemy Herophilus & Soter ; and Erasistratus , physician to Antiochus , King .of Syria , made great improvements in anatomy , or rather indeed laid the foundation of the science . * The reader will find a very detailed account of the ...
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... Ptolemies , the successors of Alexander the Great , where a succession of eminent mathematicians appeared , and where ... Ptolemy , King of Egypt , was fond of his conversa- tion , and asked him one day if there was not an easier road to ...
... Ptolemies , the successors of Alexander the Great , where a succession of eminent mathematicians appeared , and where ... Ptolemy , King of Egypt , was fond of his conversa- tion , and asked him one day if there was not an easier road to ...
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... Ptolemy Philopater . Pappus gives us a very unfavourable idea of his disposi- tion , representing him as vain , jealous , and revengeful , and ever ready to re- press his contemporaries , and prevent them from rivalling him in his own ...
... Ptolemy Philopater . Pappus gives us a very unfavourable idea of his disposi- tion , representing him as vain , jealous , and revengeful , and ever ready to re- press his contemporaries , and prevent them from rivalling him in his own ...
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... Ptolemy , which were extremely faulty ; but being ignorant both of Greek and Arabic , he could correct the blunders only by collating the different editions together , and by his knowledge of astronomy . When Cardinal Bessarion , who ...
... Ptolemy , which were extremely faulty ; but being ignorant both of Greek and Arabic , he could correct the blunders only by collating the different editions together , and by his knowledge of astronomy . When Cardinal Bessarion , who ...
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... Ptolemy's Almageste , translated from the original . He undertook and executed a prodigious number of translations from the Greek , not only of astronomical works , but of books in every department of mathematics . Archi- medes , Euclid ...
... Ptolemy's Almageste , translated from the original . He undertook and executed a prodigious number of translations from the Greek , not only of astronomical works , but of books in every department of mathematics . Archi- medes , Euclid ...
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