Bücher von Ptolemy

Published 1898-1907, this three-part collection, edited by the Danish philologist Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1854-1928), contains the extant astronomical works in Greek of Ptolemy, active in second-century Alexandria. Volume 1 appeared in two parts. Part 1 (1898) contains Books 1-6 of Ptolemy's major astronomical treatise, the Almagest.

Offers a translation of the "Geography" and provides an introduction, which treats the historical and technical background of Ptolemy's work, the contents of the "Geography", and the later history of the work. This work also includes color reproductions of maps from manuscripts and early printed editions of the text.