Author: MELITENIOTE, THEODORE. Leurquin, Régine.
Title: Théodore Méliténiote. Tribiblos astronomique. Livre I.
Description: Amst., Gieben, 1990. 1 vol. (of 3). 436 pp. 28 b./w. figs. Softcover. (Corpus des Astronomes Byzantins, IV).Theodore Meliteniotes (Constantinople, c. 1320 - 8 March 1393) was a Byzantine Greek astronomer, a sakellarios (treasurer) in the Byzantine bureaucracy, a supporter of Gregory Palamas and an opponent of the reunion with the Catholic Church. He became didaskalos ton didaskalon, i.e. the director of the Patriarchal School in 1360. Theodore's main work is his Astronomical Tribiblos, in three books, whose autograph manuscript is preserved (Vaticanus gr. 792), was composed before 1352. The work deals with an assortment of mathematical and astronomical issues and draws from some earlier Greek authors like George Pachymeres and Theodore Metochites. - - This first volume (of three) reproduce a large part of the doctoral dissertation: Leuven, 1989. - This volume contains the Greek text and French translation.

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