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Beim Traktat des bekannten alexandrinischen Gelehrten und Aristoteles-Kommentators Johannes Philoponos (6. Jh. n. Chr.) �ber das Astrolab handelt es sich um eine kleine, f�r die Wissenschaftsgeschichte aber sehr bedeutsame Schrift, da es die �lteste erhaltene Beschreibung und Funktionsanleitung des sp�ter besonders im islamischen Bereich weit verbreiteten astronomischen Ger�tes enth�lt. Die Schrift ist in der Philologie recht stiefm�tterlich behandelt worden und war bis jetzt lediglich als Beitrag im 'Rheinischen Museum' von 1839 zug�nglich. Das Ziel des vorliegenden B�chleins besteht darin, den griechischen Text in einer neu redigierten, durch Ber�cksichtigung weiterer Handschriften gest�tzten Fassung vorzulegen und die Abhandlung mit einer deutschen �bersetzung und den n�tigen Erl�uterungen und Illustrationen einem weiteren Interessentenkreis zug�nglich zu machen. Den griechischen Vorfahren der sp�teren kunstvollen islamischen und abendl�ndischen Astrolabger�ten kennenzulernen, d�rfte nicht nur den Fachmann interessieren.

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-Stuckelberger's edition and translation appear more reliable and closer to the Greek text [...]. Stuckelberger provides a very compact access without much information on author, text, and context [...]. Their rich bibliographies are helpful, even to learn more about the French and German research traditions. Both volumes constitute valuable tools for historians of science and of scientific instruments as well as for all interested in late antiquity.-Petra G. Schmidl in: Journal for the History of Astronomy 47(4)

Stuckelberger's edition and translation appear more reliable and closer to the Greek text [...]. Stuckelberger provides a very compact access without much information on author, text, and context [...]. Their rich bibliographies are helpful, even to learn more about the French and German research traditions. Both volumes constitute valuable tools for historians of science and of scientific instruments as well as for all interested in late antiquity. Petra G. Schmidl in: Journal for the History of Astronomy 47(4)

Stuckelberger's edition and translation appear more reliable and closer to the Greek text [...]. Stuckelberger provides a very compact access without much information on author, text, and context [...]. Their rich bibliographies are helpful, even to learn more about the French and German research traditions. Both volumes constitute valuable tools for historians of science and of scientific instruments as well as for all interested in late antiquity. Petra G. Schmidl in: Journal for the History of Astronomy 47(4)

Stuckelberger's edition and translation appear more reliable and closer to the Greek text [...]. Stuckelberger provides a very compact access without much information on author, text, and context [...]. Their rich bibliographies are helpful, even to learn more about the French and German research traditions. Both volumes constitute valuable tools for historians of science and of scientific instruments as well as for all interested in late antiquity. Petra G. Schmidl in: Journal for the History of Astronomy 47(4)

"""Stückelberger's edition and translation appear more reliable and closer to the Greek text [...]. Stückelberger provides a very compact access without much information on author, text, and context [...]. Their rich bibliographies are helpful, even to learn more about the French and German research traditions. Both volumes constitute valuable tools for historians of science and of scientific instruments as well as for all interested in late antiquity.""Petra G. Schmidl in: Journal for the History of Astronomy 47(4)"

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Alfred St�ckelberger, Universit�t Bern.

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