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Visualization of Ancient Cosmological Models
a presentation of completed work and some difficulties
Two non-discursive modes of presenting ancient astronomy
• Physical models
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Eudoxus Diagrams
From Neugebauer:History of AncientMathematical Astronomy
Project (paedagogy and research)
• 1995: my interest in Eudoxus and computer visualizations
MY WEB SITEA Slight Digression
Tables
Project
• 1995: my interest in Eudoxus and computer visualizations
• 1996-8: works by Hegelmeier, Mendell, Yavetz on Eudoxus
• 2008-2012: Virtual Cosmology (Gabor Betegh, Istvan Bodnár, Tim Wagner, Henry Mendell, Sebastian Szczepanski)
Eudoxus and Ptolemy
Let’s turn to the visualizations
What’s lacking in the Visualizations
• Exportation to a spread sheet (table).
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SPREAD SHEETSA BIG Mess (thank you, Microsoft)
Future?
• Alan Bowen, Francesca Rochberg (EKOH—Early Knowledge of the Heavens: A Digital Library for Mediterranean, Near Eastern, and South Asian Contexts in Pre-Modern Times)
• Solving the spread sheet problem.• Genuine 3 dimensional projections, the
modern version of a physical representation.