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Alan C. Bowen
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- The Night before Ptolemy: The Emergence of Hellenistic Planetary Theory
- Simplicius in Paris: The Medieval Christian Reading of Simplicius’ Commentary on Aristotle’s De caelo
- Prolegomena to a Science of the Heavens: Problemata 15 in Parisinus graecus 2036
- Ptolemy’s Philosophy and Its Greek, Arabic and Hebrew Reception ed.with E. Gannagé
- ‘Ptolemy’s μαθηματική and Saving the Phenomena’
Director, Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science
Editor, Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science
Editor, Interpretatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science. Series A and B (with F. Rochberg)
Research Interests
History and philosophy of Greco-Latin science (aspecially astronomy, harmonic science), ancient philosophy
Work in Progress
Bibliography in Development
Christian Wildberg and I have prepared Aristotle's De caelo: A Bibliography and will eventually convert it into a proper database. Readers who detect errors in it or who wish to reports items for inclusion are invited to contact me.
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