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PTOLEMY'S Catalogue of Stars
A REVISION OF THE ALMAGEST
BY
Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters, Ph. D.
Director of Hamilton College Observatory
Formerly Litchfield Professor of Astronomy at Hamilton College
Foreign Associate of the Royal Astronomical Society
Member of the Legion of Honor
AND
Edward Ball Knobel
Treasurer and Past President of the Royal Astronomical Society
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The Carnegie iNstitutioN of 'Washington
CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON
Publication No. 86
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CONTENTS.
Page
Preface 1-3
Historical 6-1 5
Errors of Ptolemy's longitudes 16-17
List of manuscripts collated 18
Notes on the manuscripts 1 9-23
Errors in manuscripts 24
The Catalogue 25-26
Catalogue 1 27-50
Catalogue II 51-73
Catalogue III 74~95
Notes to the Catalogue of Stars.' 96-1 13
Table of differences of identification I I4~i 19
The star magnitudes 1 20-143
Notes on the star magnitudes 1 44-1 50
Collations of manuscripts — Longitudes 1 52-179
Collations of manuscripts — Latitudes 1 80-207
ILLUSTRATIONS.
Plate I. Portrait of C. H. F. Peters Frontispiece
Page.
II. Photograph (C) of Paris Codex 2389, IX Century Facing 24
III. Photograph (C2) of Paris Codex 2389, IX Century 24
IV. Photograph (D) of Vatican Codex 1594, IX Century 24
Fig. I. Diagram of Errors in Ptolemy's Cata…