Volume 56, Number 17 · November 5, 2009
'...side by side with Zeus himself...'
By Steven Weinberg
In response to The Missions of Astronomy
(October 22, 2009)
To the Editors:
In my article "The Missions of Astronomy" [NYR, October 22], the concluding quotation from Claudius Ptolemy comes not from the Almagest but from The Greek Anthology, a collection of epigrams from late antiquity, which does not give a source for the quotation in the work of Ptolemy.
Steven Weinberg
Austin, Texas