The focus of this research area is the development of ancient astronomy from the earliest archaeoastronomical observational sites to elaborate Ptolemaic models of planetary motion.
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The Christian Aristotelian cosmos, engraving from Peter Apian's Cosmographia, 1524. Image: Wikipedia Commons.
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(2017-2023)