A review of the Greek and Egyptian sources showing the deceased and divinized queen Arsinoe II on the side of the living king Ptolemy II. In addition to the cults of Arsinoe under the kingdom of her brother and husband Ptolemy II, I am interested to re-discuss the famous passage of Chremonides' decr...

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Looking for the origins of the world machine as an idea, we can find them back to the 1st century BC, passing through several moments of universal history: in Science, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Descartes, Newton, among others; in Literature, Lucretius, Dante, Camões, and Drummond, who published the poem...

To assert that the ancient planetary theory proposed by Ptolemy was irrefutable – at least until the telescope discovery – is a bit of a cliché. The aim of this paper is to analyze in what sense it could be said that the epicycle and deferent model proposed by Ptolemy to explain the planetary moveme...

The convergence of the Neoplatonic/Neopythagorean approach with the Aristotelian organization of the sciences is one of the most interesting features that characterizes the two influential mathematical treatises on On Arithmetics (De institutione arithmetica) and On Music (De institutione musica) by...

Among the philosophers-stoys, followers of Zenon, there was also a certain Sphere Bosporus, a disciple of Cleanph. Regarding this Sphere, there is the only evidence of Diogenes of Laerte, in which the latter, without giving other details about the life and teachings of the Sphere, tells a funny stor...

The two main schools of the medieval Arab cartography – the mathematical geography and the Balkhî’s school – pictured Europe, though based on different ideas. For the Muslim medieval observers, the European continent had no geographical unity. It was seen as a mosaic of peoples, and Spain was bound...

<span lang="EN-US">Martin Behaim's famous globe, conceived and realized in Nuremberg in 1492, is not the only medieval witness of this particular form of representation of the Earth. When we examine the first testimonies, we realize that the function and content of these globes change significantly:...

The paper deals with the historical-geographical analysis of Ptolemy's maps known as Table V and Table IX. The maps were found in the "Urbinas Manuscript" of Ptolemy's work "Geography", which originated in the first half of the 2nd century AD, so it is accepted that the maps are from that p...

The etymology of 'mouseion' gave rise to the word ‘museum’ and initially referred to the temple of the Muses. It is noteworthy to recall that the first museum was the Alexandria Museum, set up by Ptolemy in 300 B.C., as a temple, a library, an astronomical observatory, an amphitheatre, a botanical g...

At the beginning of the VII century in the political life of the Near and Middle East, fundamental changes have taken place. The Arabs conquered a colossal territory, which included the lands of Iran, North Africa, North-West India, the Asian provinces of Byzantium, most of the former Roman Empire....

The works elucidates the extremum areas of the polygons circumscribing parabolic figures. It is shown that the ratio of the areas of the polygons circumscribed near parabolic figures to the areas of the corresponding figures always remains a constant value, independent of the coefficients characteri...

This paper discusses the process of the birth of science as a public institution. Science has gone from fragmentary success in understanding the world to the formation of a set of ideas about the nature of things and phenomena. The main direction of the formation of a planetary civilization should b...

Book Review::  EMMANUEL PASCHOS - CHRISTOS SIMELIDIS, Introduction to Astronomy by Theodore Metochites (Stoicheiosis Astronomike 1.5-30), Singapore - Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific 2017

The project Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus (PAL) is dedicated to the edition and study of the Arabic and Latin versions of Ptolemy’s astronomical and astrological texts and related material. These include works by Ptolemy or attributed to him, commentaries thereupon and other works that are of immedia...

This article compares the cartographic representations of the Caspian region produced around 1560 in Goa and Venice, referring also to other mapping centres such as Lisbon, Seville and Antwerp. It explores the scientific, cultural, technical and commercial logic that led to profoundly dissimilar map...

The MAPPA mametated ‘Portolano 1’ by the National Central Library of Florence, drawn up by an anonymous map in 1457, is one of the most important documents showing the imago of the middle of the century, just before the great Iberian discoveries. The map is a rich summary of the geographical innovat...

among the pre-Islamic inscriptions that are both in Arabic, Arabic and perfectly dated are that of the southern part of Syria. It is a bilingual Greek Arabic entry, dated 463 from the era of Roman province of Saudi Arabia (106 ap. J.-C.), i.e. 568-569 of our era, the date being Nabatéens figures. Si...

This chronic is divided into 3 parts: — Statuettes and statues, with the catalogue of the exhibition dedicated to Montecitorio, the satyre dansant de Mazara del Vallo (Sicily), the study of the laboratory results after the restoration of the statues of Riace, the series of anthropomorphic statuettes...

International audience In 1861, Henri Duveyrier learned from Toubous the existence of ruts in the ground which could have been made by carts harnessed to zebus, in the south west of present day Libya. This hypothesis was made more credible by the presence of engravings depicting similar harnesses on...

presentation on Ptolemia’s astronomy and contemporary astronomy.

International audience During the siege of Sardis in 213, Bôlis betrays Sôsibios, counsellor of Ptolemy IV, and delivers the usurper Achaios to Antiochos III. The traditional image of the Cretan mercenary that has been traditionally attached to him must be qualified. In fact Bôlis was also a militar...

In his Catch, Héron d’Alexandria infers the law from light reflection on the basis of an unprecedented principle, the shortest way principle. The article, after setting out the broad lines of the demonstration, focuses on highlighting the originality and fertility of the method used. The use of an e...

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