| Introduction to Ptolemy's Phases by Robert Hand |
iii |
| .......Modern Use of the Tables |
iv |
| Translator's Preface by Robert Schmidt |
vi |
| .......The Possible Relation of Stellar Phases to Greek Philosophy |
vi |
| .......The Content of the Phases |
ix |
| .......The Role of the Phases in the Ptolemaic Corpus |
x |
| .......Ptolemy's Greek |
xi |
| .......Geminus' Calendar |
xii |
| .......General Note |
xiii |
| ..............phasis |
xiii |
| ..............epitello |
xiv |
| ...............episemasia |
xv |
| The Phases of the Fixed Stars and a Collection of Indications by Ptolemy |
1 |
| .......Prologue |
1 |
| ..............Section 1. |
1 |
| ..............Section 2. |
3 |
| ..............Section 3. |
3 |
| ..............Section 4. |
4 |
| ..............Section 5. |
5 |
| ..............Section 6. |
6 |
| ..............Section 7. |
6 |
| ..............Section 8. |
8 |
| ..............Section 9. |
8 |
| .......The Calendar or Register |
10 |
| .......Epilogue |
47 |
| Calendar or Register Attributed to Geminus |
49 |
| Appendix I - Translation Conventions |
59 |
| Appendix II - Introduction to Stellar Phases |
62 |
| Appendix III - Table of Longest Days and Latitudes Derived from the Almagest |
69 |
| Appendix IV - Almagest, Book VIII, Chap.4 translated by J.M.Ashmand |
70 |
| Appendix V - The Alexandrian Calendar |
75 |
| Appendix VI - Special Lexicon of Greek Meteorological Terminology in Ptolemy's Phases and Geminus' Register |
76 |
| Appendix VII - The Modern Designations of Ptolemy's 30 Stars |
78 |
