{"id":3184,"date":"2022-03-25T11:54:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T16:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/?p=3184"},"modified":"2022-03-25T11:54:07","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T16:54:07","slug":"almagest-book-vi-eclipse-tables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/2022\/03\/almagest-book-vi-eclipse-tables\/","title":{"rendered":"Almagest Book VI: Eclipse Tables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having spent <a href=\"https:\/\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/2022\/02\/almagest-book-vi-construction-of-the-eclipse-tables-solar-eclipse-tables\/\">five<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/2022\/02\/almagest-book-vi-construction-of-the-eclipse-tables-lunar-eclipse-tables\/\">posts<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/2022\/02\/almagest-book-vi-table-of-eclipse-correction\/\">building<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/2022\/03\/almagest-book-vi-table-for-magnitudes-of-solar-and-lunar-eclipses-solar-eclipse-example\/\">eclipse<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/2022\/03\/almagest-book-vi-table-for-magnitudes-of-solar-and-lunar-eclipses-lunar-eclipse-example\/\">tables<\/a>, here&#8217;s the full tables. As usual, I&#8217;ve placed them in a <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/112ErWj-J3nvyPUAE94wDNGIk2h5ZotXcm0hDsblhKAw\/edit?usp=sharing\">Google Doc for easy access<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/112ErWj-J3nvyPUAE94wDNGIk2h5ZotXcm0hDsblhKAw\/edit?usp=sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3185\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Eclipse-Tables.png?resize=300%2C243&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Eclipse-Tables.png?resize=300%2C243&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Eclipse-Tables.png?w=761&amp;ssl=1 761w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do note that this table is broken up into four tabs.<\/p>\n<p>Toomer notes that there are a number of errors in the table, but it&#8217;s not clear whether they originate with Ptolemy&#8217;s calculations or are a result of later transcription errors. Ones that can be confirmed as scribal errors he notes were corrected in the translation.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Almagest-Progress-20220325-2.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3187\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Almagest-Progress-20220325-2.png?resize=300%2C131&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Almagest-Progress-20220325-2.png?resize=300%2C131&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Almagest-Progress-20220325-2.png?resize=1024%2C448&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Almagest-Progress-20220325-2.png?resize=768%2C336&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Almagest-Progress-20220325-2.png?resize=1536%2C672&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Almagest-Progress-20220325-2.png?w=1892&amp;ssl=1 1892w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having spent five posts building eclipse tables, here&#8217;s the full tables. As usual, I&#8217;ve placed them in a Google Doc for easy access. Do note that this table is broken up into four tabs. Toomer notes that there are a number of errors in the table, but it&#8217;s not clear whether they originate with Ptolemy&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/2022\/03\/almagest-book-vi-eclipse-tables\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Almagest Book VI: Eclipse Tables&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[25,46,56,14,57],"class_list":["post-3184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-almagest","tag-almagest","tag-eclipse","tag-lunar-eclipse","tag-ptolemy","tag-solar-eclipse"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9ZpvC-Pm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3189,"href":"https:\/\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184\/revisions\/3189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonvoisey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}