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English summary: John Philopon's treatise on the astrolabe sheds light on the advanced understanding of astrological navigation and ecliptic longitudinal calculations during Antiquity. The treatise was rediscovered in thirteenth-century Byzantium, where it quickly became a popular and oft-reproduced text. The present critical edition of the treatise engages with over forty manuscripts, and concludes with a discussion of Ptolemaic astronomy and astrolabes in general. French description: Le Traite de l'astrolabe de Jean Philopon est le plus ancien texte concernant l'astrolabe qui soit parvenu jusqu'a nous. C'est un traite d'usage de bonne facture, tres didactique, qui aborde divers usages de l'instrument bien au-dela de la simple determination de l'heure, de jour ou de nuit, puisque l'auteur termine par la determination de la longitude ecliptique des astres errants. L'etude de l'ouvrage permet de constater que l'on dispose a Alexandrie, a cette epoque, d'astrolabes de bonne qualite, ancetres directs de ceux qui feront flores ulterieurement dans les mondes arabo-persan puis occidental. Mais ce n'est cependant, en aucune facon, un traite de construction. Bien que le traite soit vraisemblablement parvenu tres tot a Byzance, ou il a du faire l'objet de quelques copies, il semble bien qu'il a ete redecouvert vers la fin du XIIIe siecle. Nous n'avons pas de manuscrit anterieur a cette periode, mais les copies sont tres nombreuses au-dela, non seulement a Byzance, mais aussi dans le monde occidental. Nous avons base notre edition critique sur plus de quarante manuscrits, en privilegiant les plus anciens. Nous avons pu mettre en evidence qu'il y a eu autour de ce traite, au XIVe siecle, a Byzance, une activite tres brouillonne: d'un cote des copies multiples de textes fortement degrades et donc peu exploitables, et de l'autre deux tentatives de reconstituer un texte de qualite, tentatives dont l'une, plutot aboutie, peut etre reellement qualifiee de recension. Cette derniere a ete disponible aux alentours de 1360. Nous completons notre edition critique par un rappel de l'astronomie ptolemaique, qui est le fondement sur lequel repose la conception meme de l'astrolabe, et par une description de l'instrument.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9782251005966
  • Publisher: Les Belles Lettres
  • Publisher Imprint: Les Belles Lettres
  • Edition: Bilingual
  • Language: French
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Width: 127 mm
  • ISBN-10: 225100596X
  • Publisher Date: 05 Jun 2015
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 193 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Series Title: Collection des universites de France
  • Weight: 367 gr


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