Philosophy 167: Class 2 - Part 4 - Regiomontanus: Some Key Pre-Copernicus Publications in Astronomy.
Smith, George E. (George Edwin), 1938-
2014-09-09
Description
Synopsis: Introduces Georg von Peuerbach and Regiomontanus (Johannes Mller von Knigsberg); discusses the project to print in the original Greek the whole of the Almagest, Euclid, Apollonius, and Archimedes.
Opening line: "All right, so now I'm back to what happened in Europe after 1450."
