…side by side with Zeus himself…’

November 5, 2009

Steven Weinberg

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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

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