Claudius Ptolemy and Self-Promotion. A study on Ptolemy’s intellectual
The main objective of this dissertation is to study the relationship between the mathematician Claudius Ptolemy and his social and intellectual context in the Roman Alexandria of the second century CE. Against the communis opinio (and the much more common silence) on this issue, my main conclusion i...
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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Universitat de Barcelona
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10803/128668 |