14-09-2017, 12:12 PM
(12-09-2017, 09:18 PM)Helmut Winkler wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.... a French transl. of al Sufi is online, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and there seem to be medieval Latin translations of al Sufi
There ia an interesting site, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. pagina.htm, including Forschungsbibliothek Gotha Pergamenthandschrift M II 141, the Latin text seems similar to the clm-text. Is it Ptolemaios?
I hope there is someone who knows more about these things than I do
The French translation has a table right in the beginning, showing the comparison between magnitudes in Ptolemy and in Al Sufi's catalogue, which is exactly what I was looking for at the time. The differences are minimal. Thanks! That was very helpful.
In general, the site: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is a *great* resource.
The link given by Helmust was corrupted by the presence of a space character: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .
W.r.t. the MS in Gotha, this seems one a several very similar copies of a translation from Greek of Ptolemaios' work, with modifications by Al Sufi.
(This is based on what the web site says).