Astronomy:Handy Tables

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3rd Century AD papyrus fragment of Ptolemy's Handy Tables

Ptolemy's Handy Tables (Ancient Greek: πρόχειροι κανόνες, romanized: Procheiroi kanones) is a collection of astronomical tables that second century astronomer Ptolemy created after finishing the Almagest. The Handy Tables elaborated the astronomical tables of the Almagest and included usage instructions, but left out the theoretical commentary in order to facilitate practical computation. The work is considered of high significance during the late antiquity and in the Middle Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean medieval traditions.[1][2][3]

The earliest surviving manuscript in the Rylands Library dates from the 3rd century AD.[4][5][6][7] Ptolemy is also thought to have produced the Table of Noteworthy Cities as an aid for his astronomical tables.[8]

Papyri

A number of fragmentary papyri from 4th century Oxyrhynchus survive:

  • P.Oxy. LXI 4167[9]
  • P.Oxy. LXI 4168[10]
  • P.Oxy. LXI 4169[11]
  • P.Oxy. LXI 4170[12]
  • P.Oxy. LXI 4171[13]

References

  1. ↑ "astronomy - Ancient Greece | Britannica" (in en). https://www.britannica.com/science/astronomy/Ancient-Greece. 
  2. ↑ Jones, Alexander (May 2017). "Ptolemy's Handy Tables" (in en). Journal for the History of Astronomy 48 (2): 238–241. doi:10.1177/0021828617706254. ISSN 0021-8286. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0021828617706254. 
  3. ↑ Tihon (2011) (in en). Ptolemaiou Procheiroi Kanones. Ptolemy's Handy Tables. Volume 1b: Tables A1-A2. Transcription and Commentary. Peeters. ISBN 978-2-7584-0117-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=r1QazgEACAAJ. 
  4. ↑ "Astronomical table" (in en). https://luna.manchester.ac.uk/luna/servlet/detail/ManchesterDev~93~3~55170~189079#. 
  5. ↑ "Astronomical table" (in en). https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma992986479474501631. 
  6. ↑ Defaux, Olivier (2020-01-01). "Le Papyrus Rylands 522/523 et les tables de Ptolémée". Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. https://www.academia.edu/43212361/Le_Papyrus_Rylands_522_523_et_les_tables_de_Ptol%C3%A9m%C3%A9e. 
  7. ↑ Roberts, C. H. (1938). Catalogue of the Greek and Latin Papyri in the John Rylands Library Manchester, Volume III, Theological and Literary Texts (Nos. 457-551).. Manchester University Library. pp. 147–150. 
  8. ↑ Defaux, Olivier (2017). The Iberian peninsula in Ptolemy's Geography: origins of the coordinates and textual history. Berlin studies of the ancient world. Berlin: Edition Topoi. pp. 122–6. ISBN 978-3-9816384-6-2. 
  9. ↑ "P.Oxy. LXI 4167. Ptolemy, Handy Tables" (in en). 2022-09-21. https://portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/articles/online_resource/P_Oxy_LXI_4167_Ptolemy_Handy_Tables/21177772/1. 
  10. ↑ "P.Oxy. LXI 4168. Ptolemy, Handy Tables" (in en). 2022-09-21. https://portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/articles/online_resource/P_Oxy_LXI_4168_Ptolemy_Handy_Tables/21177775/1. 
  11. ↑ "P.Oxy. LXI 4169. Ptolemy, Handy Tables" (in en). 2022-09-21. https://portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/articles/online_resource/P_Oxy_LXI_4169_Ptolemy_Handy_Tables/21177778/1. 
  12. ↑ Danckwortt, P. (July 1909). "Über Kondensationen von Aldehyden und Oxy‐aldehyden mit Phenolen". Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft 42 (3): 4163–4171. doi:10.1002/cber.190904203180. ISSN 0365-9496. https://doi.org/10.1002/cber.190904203180. 
  13. ↑ "P.Oxy. LXI 4171. Ptolemy, Handy Tables" (in en). 2022-09-21. https://portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/articles/online_resource/P_Oxy_LXI_4171_Ptolemy_Handy_Tables/21177784/1. 

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