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The Legacy of Ptolemy’s Almagest

Initial Conditions: A Physics History Podcast

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The Alma Justice and the History of Science

Initial Conditions is a weekly podcast from the Niels Bohr Library and Archives at the American Institute of Physics. This week, Moris Shapiro talks with Dr. John Hessler about Ptolemy and the Renaissance. We also heard from Professor George Saliba, the founding director of the Fruch-Jabra Center for Arabic and Islamic Science and Philosophy in Beirut. And we hear the story of the proposed 30-meter telescope and the controversies over its planned construction on Mauna Kea, a sacred site on the Big Island of Hawaii.

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