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We look at the rediscovery of astronomical texts by western Europe from the time of the Plague of Justinian to the Great Mortality. The work of Martianus Capella, Isidore of Seville, Gerard of Cremona, Averroes and Johannes of Sacrobosco is examined and placed in a wider historical context.
A look at the work of Ptolemy's Mathematical Treatise, otherwise known as the Almagest. Hipparchus, precession, the Library of Alexandria and the broader Greco-Roman world are also discussed.
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