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Book Review: Saving Ptolemy: On the Distances between Sun, Moon & Earth: According to Ptolemy, Copernicus & Reinhold

Richard L. KremerView all authors and affiliations
Based on: On the Distances Between Sun, Moon & Earth: According to Ptolemy, Copernicus & Reinhold. Henderson Janice Adrienne (Studia Copernicana, xxx; Brill's Series, i; E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1991). Pp. xiv + 220. $71.50.
Volume 24, Issue 1-2
https://doi.org/10.1177/002182869302400108
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1. On this latter point, see Abers E. S. and Kennel C. F., “Commentary: The role of error in ancient methods for determining the solar distance”, in Westman R. S. (ed.), The Copernican achievement (Berkeley, 1975), 130–6; Van Helden A., Measuring the universe (Chicago, 1985), 18.
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2. Cf. Gingerich Owen, “The role of Erasmus Reinhold and the Prutenic tables in the dissemination of Copernican theory”, Studia Copernicana, vi (1973), 43–62, 123–5.
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