Christián Carman

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Christián C. Carman is professor and researcher at the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina, and research member of the National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET). He works on topics related to philosophy of science as well as history of ancient astronomy (mainly related to the Antikythera Mechanism, Aristarchus of Samos and Ptolemy), and history of Early modern astronomy.

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Books by Christián Carman

The Book of Astronomy in Antiquity (Concise Edition)

By Ptolemy

Foreword by Marika Taylor / Introduction by Christián Carman

Ptolemy's work in ancient times laid the foundations for our modern understanding of the universe. Now in a digestible, pocket format for the modern reader.

Ptolemy’s great astronomical work, which we know as The Almagest, brought together the ideas of Greek Antiquity, based ...

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