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The History of Egypt under the Ptolemies by Samuel Sharpe 9781108082976
Booksplease Price: £26.61This 1838 work by Samuel Sharpe (1799-1881) is the second of two volumes on the history of ancient Egypt; the first, dealing with the earlier period, is also reissued in this series. From a banking... -
Streetscapes: Navigating Historic English Towns Ptolemy Dean 9781848226838
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £39.30At a time of increased pressure for new urban development, where there is a focus on either object-based architecture or the rolling out of developer-designed suburban sprawl, there is a concern that... -
Claudii Ptolemaei opera quae exstant omnia by Ptolemy 9781108063647
Booksplease Price: £49.54Best known for his 1906 discovery of lost texts in the Archimedes Palimpsest, Danish scholar Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1854-1928), professor of classical philology at Copenhagen, published numerous... -
Ptolemy's Science of the Stars in the Middle Ages by David Juste 9782503586397
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £119.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503586397Author David JusteFormat HardbackPage Count 463Imprint -
Ptolemy's Philosophy: Mathematics as a Way of Life by Jacqueline Feke 9780691179582
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The Eye of Heaven: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler by Owen Gingerich 9780883188637
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £36.74"Blurb & Contents" "I can think of few better ways of introducing students to the history of astronomy than by using The Eye of Heaven as a text....This is science at its best....Not only does... -
The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome: A History of the Ptolemies Guy de la Bedoyere 9780300284942
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10A compelling history of the Ptolemies, the decline of Egypt, and the rising power of the Roman Empire The Ptolemaic era, Egypt's last and one of its longest dynasties, was in many ways a gilded age... -
Geography: The Guide. Mega-edition in English and Greek by Claudius Ptolemy 9798985923780
Booksplease Price: £41.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798985923780Author Claudius PtolemyFormat PaperbackPage Count 696Imprint
The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome: A History of the Ptolemies Guy de la Bedoyere 9780300275520
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.06A compelling history of the Ptolemies, the decline of Egypt, and the rising power of the Roman Empire The Ptolemaic era, Egypt's last and one of its longest dynasties, was in many ways a gilded age...
The Multilingual Experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids Arietta Papaconstantinou 9781138257344
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44For over a millennium and a half, Egypt was home to at least two commonly used languages of communication. Although this situation is by no means exceptional in the ancient and medieval worlds, the...
The Ptolemies, the Sea and the Nile: Studies in Waterborne Power by Kostas Buraselis 9781107033351
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.99With its emphasis on the dynasty's concern for control of the sea - both the Mediterranean and the Red Sea - and the Nile, this book offers a new and original perspective on Ptolemaic power in a key...
The Ptolemies, the Sea and the Nile: Studies in Waterborne Power by Kostas Buraselis 9781108436663
Booksplease Price: £32.12With its emphasis on the dynasty's concern for control of the sea - both the Mediterranean and the Red Sea - and the Nile, this book offers a new and original perspective on Ptolemaic power in a key...
A List of Editions of Ptolemy's Geography 1475-1730 by Wilberforce Eames 9781110800452
Booksplease Price: £13.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781110800452Author Wilberforce EamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint <
The History of Egypt Under the Ptolemies. by Samuel Orientalist Sharpe 9781241378851
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241378851Author Samuel Orientalist SharpeFormat PaperbackPage Count 240
Claudii Ptolemaei opera quae exstant omnia by Ptolemy 9781108063654
Booksplease Price: £49.54Best known for his 1906 discovery of lost texts in the Archimedes Palimpsest, Danish scholar Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1854-1928), professor of classical philology at Copenhagen, published numerous...
The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt by Helen M. Strudwick
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.00For more than 3,000 years, Egypt was home to the greatest civilization on earth. Illustrated with more than 1,500 photographs and specially commissioned illustrations, The Encyclopedia of Ancient...
From the Ptolemies to the Romans: Political and Economic Change in Egypt by Andrew Monson
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £37.44This book gives a structured account of Egypt's transition from Ptolemaic to Roman rule by identifying key relationships between ecology, land tenure, taxation, administration and politics. It...
Portraits of the Ptolemies: Greek Kings as Egyptian Pharaohs by Paul Edmund Stanwick
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £37.20As archaeologists recover the lost treasures of Alexandria, the modern world is marveling at the latter-day glory of ancient Egypt and the Greeks who ruled it from the ascension of Ptolemy I in 306...
Ptolemy I Soter: Themes and Issues by Professor Edward M. Anson
Booksplease Price: £29.91Ptolemy I, whose epithet was Savior, was in many respects the most successful of all of Alexander the Great's successors. He created the longest lasting of the Hellenistic kingdoms that rose in the...
Soon Come: A PTOLEMY TURTLE ADVENTURE Meslisande Potter-Hall 9789766101718
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789766101718Author Meslisande Potter-HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 42
Avicenna’s Addendum to His Recension of Ptolemy’s Almagest by Sajjad Nikfahm-Khubravan 9783111332642
RRP: £127.00Booksplease Price: £81.68The Islamic astronomical tradition greatly benefited from the many works produced in different ancient cultures, as well as the new empirical and theoretical approaches that led to advancements in...
The Ptolemies, Apogee and Collapse: Ptolemiac Egypt 246–146 BC by John D Grainger 9781399090179
Booksplease Price: £27.41Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.
Catalogue of Greek Coins - The Ptolemies, Kings of Egypt by Reginald Stuart Poole 9781473337848
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781473337848Author Reginald Stuart PooleFormat PaperbackPage Count 276
Tetrabiblos for the 21st Century: Ptolemy's Bible of Astrology, Simplified by Sylvia Sky 9780866906852
RRP: £18.11Booksplease Price: £17.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780866906852Author Sylvia SkyFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint
Ptolemy and the Foundations of Ancient Mathematical Optics: A Guided Study by A Mark Smith 9780871698933
Booksplease Price: £35.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871698933Author A. Mark SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint
Proclus, ›Hypotyposis Astronomicarum Positionum‹: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary with a Study of the Diagrams and Illustrations by Argyro Lithari 9783111512846
RRP: £146.50Booksplease Price: £94.67Proclus' Hypotyposis Astronomicarum Positionum, a late antique astronomical treatise, has been transmitted through Byzantine codices which usually record it among mathematical, philosophical or...
Gods Priests & Men by Lloyd
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £55.28First Published in 1998. This volume brings together for the first time in a single volume the highly significant works on ancient Egyptian religion by Aylward Manley Blackman (1883-1956). Blackman's...
Seleukos Nikator (Routledge Revivals): Constructing a Hellenistic Kingdom John D Grainger 9780415744010
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC, one of his commanders, Seleukos Nikator, rose over a period of forty years from being a landless refugee to the most successful of the Successor...
The Book of the Kings of Egypt: Vol. I: Dynasties I - XIX by E. A. Wallis Budge 9780415814485
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Sir E. A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was Keeper of the British Museum's department of oriental antiquities from 1894 until his retirement in 1924. Carrying out many missions to Egypt in search of...
Overcoming Ptolemy: The Revelation of an Asian World Region by Geoffrey C. Gunn 9781498590136
Booksplease Price: £112.43Studies on global metageography are enjoying a revival, and in no way is this better referenced than against the geo-world system bequeathed by Claudius Ptolemy almost two thousand years ago. This is...
Ptolemy's catalogue of stars: a revision of the Almagest by Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters 9789353864057
RRP: £27.24Booksplease Price: £22.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353864057Author Christian Heinrich Friedrich PetersFormat PaperbackPage Co
Mapping the Silk Road: The Riddle of Ptolemy’s Stone Tower Riaz Dean 9781636246093
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £22.24For over 2,000 years, the precise location of the Stone Tower-the midpoint of the ancient Silk Road, where caravans traveling between Europe and Asia paused to rest, trade, and resupply-has remained...
From the Ptolemies to the Romans: Political and Economic Change in Egypt by Andrew Monson 9781107014411
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £105.09This book gives a structured account of Egypt's transition from Ptolemaic to Roman rule by identifying key relationships between ecology, land tenure, taxation, administration and politics. It...
Ptolemy I Soter: Themes and Issues by Professor Edward M. Anson 9781350260818
Booksplease Price: £80.73Ptolemy I, whose epithet was Savior, was in many respects the most successful of all of Alexander the Great’s successors. He created the longest lasting of the Hellenistic kingdoms that rose in the...
Remarks on Ptolemy's Geography of the British Isles: Communicated to the Society of Antiquaries. by Henry Bradley 9781240013128
Booksplease Price: £13.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240013128Author Henry BradleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint
Jaghmini's Mulakhkhas: An Islamic Introduction to Ptolemaic Astronomy by Sally P. Ragep 9783319811727
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £99.87This book provides the only critical edition and English translation of Mahmud al-Jaghmini's al-Mulakhkhas fi al-hay'a al-basita, the most widely circulated Arabic treatise on Ptolemaic astronomy...
Philo's Alexandria by Dorothy I. Sly
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89First-century Alexandria vied with Rome to be the greatest city of the Roman empire. More than half a million people lived in its cosmopolitan four square miles. It was a major centre for...
Herodotus's Scythians and Ptolemy's Central Asia: Semasiological and Onomasiological Studies by Helmut Humbach 9783895008870
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £56.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783895008870Author Helmut HumbachFormat HardbackPage Count 91Imprint
Shifting the Earth: The Mathematical Quest to Understand the Motion of the Universe by Arthur Mazer 9781118024270
RRP: £59.95Booksplease Price: £52.41Discover how mathematics and science have propelled history From Ancient Greece to the Enlightenment and then on to modern times, Shifting the Earth: The Mathematical Quest to Understand the Motion...
Classical Astrology for Modern Living: From Ptolemy to Psychology & Back Again by J.Lee Lehman
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780924608247Author Dr. J. Lee LehmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint