PERSON
Theodore Metochites
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Theodore Metochites
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| Alias |
Theodorus von Antiochia
Metochites [Metoxites]
Theodore [Theodoros, Theoleptos]
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| Born |
658H/1260J
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| Flourished |
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| Died |
732H/1332J
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| Notes |
Metochites's Stoicheiosis Astronomike [Elements of astronomy]), an introduction to Ptolemaic astronomy, revived Ptolemaic studies in Byzantium and is indicative of the influence of Persian and Arabic science in astronomy as practiced in the period of the early Paleologai. |
| Number in MAMS |
564
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| Biography URL |
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| ismi_id |
44752
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Authored Works
1 works:Astronomy: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam
References
Haramundanis, Katherine. 2007. “Metochites [Metoxites], Theodore [Theodoros, Theoleptos] ”. In , ed. Thomas al., 776. New York: Springer-Verlag.
Rozenfeld, Boris, and Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu. 2003. Mathematicians, Astronomers and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilisation and Their Works (7th-19th c.). Istanbul: Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture.
P. 202 (no. 564).
Bydén, Börje, and Katerina Ierodiakonou. 2002. “To Every Argument There Is a Counter-Argument: Theodore Metochites’ Defence of Scepticism (Semeiosis 61)”. In Byzantine Philosophy and Its Ancient Sources, 183-217. Oxford; New York: Clarendon Press.
Bydén, Börje, and Karin Hult. 2002. Theodore Metochites on Ancient Authors and Philosophy: Semeioseis Gnomikai 1-26 & 71: A Critical Edition With Introduction, Translation, Notes, and Indexes.. Studia Graeca Et Latina Gothoburgensia, Vol. 65. Göteborg, Sweden: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis.
Kazhdan, Alexander, and Alice‐Mary Talbot. 1991. “Metochites, Theodore”. The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. New York: Oxford University Press.