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The science called 'harmonics' was one of the major intellectual enterprises of Greek antiquity. Ptolemy's treatise seeks to invest it with new scientific rigour; its consistently sophisticated procedural self-awareness marks it as a key text in the history of science. This book is a sustained methodological exploration of Ptolemy's project. After an analysis of his explicit pronouncements on the science's aims and the methods appropriate to it, it examines Ptolemy's conduct of his investigation in detail, concluding that despite occasional uncertainties, the declared procedure is followed with remarkable fidelity. Ptolemy pursues tenaciously his novel objective of integrating closely the project's theoretical and empirical phases and shows astonishing mastery of the concept, the design and the conduct of controlled experimental tests. By opening up this neglected text to historians of science, the book aims to provide a point of departure for wider studies of Greek scientific method.

Music theory --- Science, Ancient. --- Théorie musicale --- Sciences anciennes --- History --- Histoire --- Ptolemy, --- 78.63 --- Ancient science --- Science, Primitive --- Science --- Music --- Theory --- Ptolemaeus, Claudius.

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Porphyry's Commentary on Ptolemy's "Harmonics" is a unique document of Neoplatonic thought on music. Not only does it contain a thorough discussion of the perception and appreciation of pitched sounds, but it also gives us a hint of how the technicalities of music theory might have been taught to non specialised readers with a philosophical background; moreover, it is a treasure of "ations from lost authors and works. The apparatus of this new edition includes all the emendations and conjectures that have been proposed by many scholars since Ingemar Düring's 1932 edition and takes into account a few manuscripts that escaped the previous editor's otherwise remarkable recensio. The boundaries of some "ations from ancient authors are redefined and many misprints corrected. Finally, the text of the Byzantine epitome of the Commentary is here edited for the first time.

Music, Greek and Roman --- Music theory --- Théorie musicale --- History and criticism --- History --- Histoire --- Ptolemy, --- Musique grecque et romaine --- Early works to 1800. --- Sources. --- Histoire et critique --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Sources --- Théorie musicale --- Porphyry. --- Influence. --- Igneous rocks --- Baṭlamyūs, --- Ptholomeus, --- Ptolemaeus, Claudius, --- Ptolemaios, Klaudios, --- Ptolemaus, Claudius, --- Ptolémée, Claude, --- Ptolemeĭ, Klavdiĭ, --- Ptolemy, Claudius, --- Tolemeo, Claudio, --- Tolomeo, Claudio, --- بطليموس --- بطلميوس --- Ptolemaeus, Claudius. --- Ptolémée --- Tolomeo, Claudio --- Harmonics. --- Neoplatonism. --- Harmonics --- Neoplatonism --- Porphyry

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Under Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who ruled Egypt in the middle of the third century B.C.E., Alexandria became the brilliant multicultural capital of the Greek world. Theocritus's poem in praise of Philadelphus-at once a Greek king and an Egyptian pharaoh-is the only extended poetic tribute to this extraordinary ruler that survives. Combining the Greek text, an English translation, a full line-by-line commentary, and extensive introductory studies of the poem's historical and literary context, this volume also offers a wide-ranging and far-reaching consideration of the workings and representation of poetic patronage in the Ptolemaic age. In particular, the book explores the subtle and complex links among Theocritus's poem, modes of praise drawn from both Greek and Egyptian traditions, and the subsequent flowering of Latin poetry in the Augustan age. As the first detailed account of this important poem to show how Theocritus might have drawn on the pharaonic traditions of Egypt as well as earlier Greek poetry, this book affords unique insight into how praise poetry for Ptolemy and his wife may have helped to negotiate the adaptation of Greek culture that changed conditions of the new Hellenistic world. Invaluable for its clear translation and its commentary on genre, dialect, diction, and historical reference in relation to Theocritus's Encomium, the book is also significant for what it reveals about the poem's cultural and social contexts and about Theocritus' devices for addressing his several readerships. COVER IMAGE: The image on the front cover of this book is incorrectly identified on the jacket flap. The correct caption is: Gold Oktadrachm depicting Ptolemy II and Arsinoe (mid-third century BCE; by permission of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).

Ptolemy II Philadelphus, King of Egypt --- Theocritus --- Ptolemy --- Ptolemaeus --- Ptolemy II Philadelphus --- Poetry --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical. --- alexandria. --- ancient egypt. --- ancient greece. --- aristophanes. --- arsinoe ii. --- art. --- augustan poetry. --- classical studies. --- clouds. --- egypt. --- encomium. --- genre studies. --- greek culture. --- greek poetry. --- greek world. --- hellenism. --- hellenistic poetry. --- hellenistic world. --- heracles. --- homeric hymn. --- hymn. --- king. --- latin poetry. --- literary criticism. --- monarchy. --- mythology. --- patronage. --- patrons. --- pharaoh. --- pharaonic traditions. --- philadelphus. --- pithom stele. --- poetic meter. --- poetic tribute. --- poetry. --- poets. --- praise. --- ptolemaic dynasty. --- ptolemy ii. --- reign. --- ruler. --- theocritus. --- third century. --- zeus.

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Das Image des ptolemäischen Königs und seiner Familie wurde maßgeblich von Ptolemaios II. (282-246 v. Chr.) gestaltet. Seine Vorgaben der medialen Repräsentation hatten bis zum Ende des Ptolemäerreichs Bestand und waren über Ägypten hinaus in der hellenistischen Welt einflussreich. Zu den Hauptelementen seiner monarchischen Selbstdarstellung gehörten die Dualität auf dem Thron, eng verbunden mit der Geschwisterehe, die geradezu zum ptolemäischen Markenzeichen wurde, und die Apotheose des Herrscherpaars zu Lebzeiten. Die Untersuchung beleuchtet die politische Ikonographie des ptolemäischen Königspaars gegenüber makedonischen, griechischen und ägyptischen Rezipienten in literarischen, epigraphischen, numismatischen und bildlichen Quellen. Im Kontext der Darstellung der Ptolemäer in pharaonischer Tradition gegenüber der einheimischen Bevölkerung wird der Aspekt ihrer Abgrenzung von den Persern als Herrscher über Ägypten thematisiert. Insbesondere wird die symbolische Codierung der Darstellung der ptolemäischen Königin am Beispiel der Schwester und Frau Ptolemaios' II., Arsinoë II. betrachtet, die als archetypisches Vorbild für die nachfolgenden Königinnen gilt. Dabei wird in Auseinandersetzung mit den vorherrschenden Forschungspositionen der Frage nachgegangen, inwieweit das Image der Königin ihre politischen Handlungsräume widerspiegelt.

Arsinoe ̈ A ̈gypten, Ko ̈nigin, II. --- Arsinoe II, Queen, consort of Ptolemy II, King of Egypt, ca. 316-270 B.C. --- Ptolemaios A ̈gypten, Ko ̈nig, II. --- Ptolemy II Philadelphus, King of Egypt. --- Queens -- Egypt. --- Queens --- Regions & Countries - Africa --- History & Archaeology --- Monarchy --- Hellenism. --- History --- Repräsentation. --- Herrschaft. --- Ptolemy --- Arsinoe --- Arsinoë --- Ptolemaios --- Egypt --- Kings and rulers. --- Reines --- Egypte --- Rois et souverains --- Kingdom (Monarchy) --- Executive power --- Political science --- Royalists --- Ptolemaeus --- Arsinoe (Egypt, Queen, II). --- Egypt/Ancient History. --- Ptolemy (Egypt, King, II, 282-246 v. Chr.). --- sibling marriage. --- symbolic policy. --- Repräsentation. --- Arsinoë

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Between Copernicus and Galileo is the story of Christoph Clavius, the Jesuit astronomer and teacher whose work helped set the standards by which Galileo's famous claims appeared so radical, and whose teachings guided the intellectual and scientific agenda of the Church in the central years of the Scientific Revolution. Though relatively unknown today, Clavius was enormously influential throughout Europe in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries through his astronomy books-the standard texts used in many colleges and universities, and the tools with which Descartes, Gassendi, and Mersenne, among many others, learned their astronomy. James Lattis uses Clavius's own publications as well as archival materials to trace the central role Clavius played in integrating traditional Ptolemaic astronomy and Aristotelian natural philosophy into an orthodox cosmology. Although Clavius strongly resisted the new cosmologies of Copernicus and Tycho, Galileo's invention of the telescope ultimately eroded the Ptolemaic world view. By tracing Clavius's views from medieval cosmology the seventeenth century, Lattis illuminates the conceptual shift from Ptolemaic to Copernican astronomy and the social, intellectual, and theological impact of the Scientific Revolution.

Cosmology, Medieval. --- Astronomy, Medieval. --- Medieval astronomy --- Medieval cosmology --- Clavius, Christoph, --- Ptolemy, --- Clavius, Christophorus, --- Clauius, Christophorus, --- Clavio, Cristoforo, --- Ptolémée --- Tolomeo, Claudio --- Baṭlamyūs, --- Ptholomeus, --- Ptolemaeus, Claudius, --- Ptolemaios, Klaudios, --- Ptolemaus, Claudius, --- Ptolémée, Claude, --- Ptolemeĭ, Klavdiĭ, --- Ptolemy, Claudius, --- Tolemeo, Claudio, --- Tolomeo, Claudio, --- بطليموس --- بطلميوس --- Astronomy, Medieval --- Cosmology, Medieval --- Cosmology --- Astronomy [Medieval ] --- Clavius, Christoph --- Ptolemy --- #GBIB: jesuitica --- christoph clavius, jesuit, science, astronomy, heresy, catholic church, scientific revolution, mersenne, descartes, gassendi, cosmology, natural philosophy, aristotle, ptolemy, tycho, copernicus, telescope, planets, sun, orbit, universe, heliocentric, nonfiction, history, theology, medieval, celestial spheres, mathematics, discovery, instruments, observation, religion.