Las Hipotesis de los planetas de Claudio Optolome y su recepcion entre los astronomos arabes

Abstract

The configuration of the cosmos f rom Claudio Ptolomeo with concrete value of sizes, disposition and distances of planeis, was found in the book that the arabic astronomers ca//ed Kitãb al-mansãrãt or Kitãb al-iqti!lâs that really was the book Las hipótesis de los planetas from Ptolomeo. After having referred the «incidents» of its searching in severa/ arabic manuscripts, it is exposed specífic questions of the book and, afterwards, it is considered the severa/ situations of acceptance or refusing that the postulates from Ptolomeo received among the arabic astronomers. The arabic astronomers did not abandon the traditiona/ constitution of the astronomic system inherited from greeks, hindues and persians, in spite of the technic possibilities that they had.