A history of Greek mathematics Vol.II from Aristarchus to Diophantus by Heath, Thomas Little, Sir, 1921
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THE ANALEMMA OF PTOLEMY 291<br />
or tan VG = tan SC cos SGV in the right-angled spherical<br />
triangle SVG.<br />
Thirdly,<br />
tan QZ = tan Z Y = ^p = •<br />
^p ^r,<br />
= tan < .<br />
-—<br />
that is, 7 i^r-r = —— tj-^ , which is Menelaus, Sphaerica,<br />
'<br />
tan#if sin #¥<br />
z<br />
<strong>II</strong>I. 3, applied <strong>to</strong> the right-angled spherical triangles ZBQ,<br />
MBS with the angle B common.<br />
Zeuthen points out that later in the same treatise P<strong>to</strong>lemy<br />
finds the arc 2oc described above the horizon <strong>by</strong> a star <strong>of</strong><br />
given declination #', <strong>by</strong> a procedure equivalent <strong>to</strong> the formula<br />
cos a = tan 8' tan 0,<br />
and this is the same formula which, as we have seen,<br />
Hipparchus must in effect have used in his Commentary on<br />
the Phaenomena <strong>of</strong> Eudoxus and Aratus.<br />
Lastly, with regard <strong>to</strong> the calculations <strong>of</strong> the height h and<br />
the azimuth co in the general case where the sun's declination<br />
is 8', Zeuthen has shown that they may be expressed <strong>by</strong> the<br />
formulae<br />
and tana) =<br />
or<br />
sin h = (cos 8' cos t — sin 8' tan 0) cos 0,<br />
k<br />
cos<br />
cos 8' sin t<br />
r + (cos 8' cos t — sin 8' tan 6) sin 6<br />
cos 8 / sin £<br />
sin 8' cos + cos 8* cos £ sin<br />
The statement therefore <strong>of</strong> A. v. Braunmtihl 1 that the<br />
Indians were the first <strong>to</strong> utilize the method <strong>of</strong> projection<br />
contained in<br />
the Analemma for actual trigonometrical calculations<br />
with the help <strong>of</strong> the Table <strong>of</strong> Chords or Sines requires<br />
modification in so far as the <strong>Greek</strong>s at all events showed the<br />
way <strong>to</strong> such use <strong>of</strong> the figure. Whether^the practical application<br />
<strong>of</strong> the method <strong>of</strong> the Analemma for what is equivalent<br />
<strong>to</strong> the solution <strong>of</strong> spherical triangles goes back as far as<br />
Hipparchus is not certain ; but it is quite likely that it does,<br />
1<br />
Braunmuhl, i, pp. 13, 14, 38-41.<br />
U 2<br />
292 TRIGONOMETRY<br />
seeing that Diodorus wrote his Analcmma in<br />
the next century.<br />
The other alternative source for Hipparchus's spherical<br />
trigonometry is the Menelaus-theorem applied <strong>to</strong> the sphere,<br />
on which alone P<strong>to</strong>lemy, as we have seen, relies in his<br />
Syntaxis. In any case the Table <strong>of</strong> Chords or Sines was in<br />
full use in Hipparchus's works, for it is presupposed <strong>by</strong> either<br />
method.<br />
The Planisphaerium.<br />
With the Analemma <strong>of</strong> P<strong>to</strong>lemy is associated another<br />
work <strong>of</strong> somewhat similar content, the Planisphaerium.<br />
This again has only survived in a Latin translation <strong>from</strong> an<br />
Arabic version made <strong>by</strong> one Maslama b. Ahmad al-Majriti,<br />
Cordova (born probably at Madrid, died 1007/8) ;<br />
<strong>of</strong><br />
the translation<br />
is now found <strong>to</strong> be, not <strong>by</strong> Rudolph <strong>of</strong> Bruges, but <strong>by</strong><br />
'Hermannus Secundus', whose pupil Rudolph was; it was<br />
first published at Basel in 1536, and again edited, with commentary,<br />
<strong>by</strong> Commandinus (Venice, 1558). It has been<br />
re-edited <strong>from</strong> the manuscripts <strong>by</strong> Heiberg in vol. ii. <strong>of</strong> his<br />
text <strong>of</strong> P<strong>to</strong>lemy. The book is an explanation <strong>of</strong> the system<br />
<strong>of</strong> projection known as stereographic, <strong>by</strong> which points on the<br />
heavenly sphere are represented on the plane <strong>of</strong> the equa<strong>to</strong>r<br />
<strong>by</strong> projection <strong>from</strong> one point, a pole ;<br />
P<strong>to</strong>lemy naturally takes<br />
the south pole as centre <strong>of</strong> projection, as it is th£ northern<br />
hemisphere which he is concerned <strong>to</strong> represent on a plane.<br />
P<strong>to</strong>lemy is aware that the projections <strong>of</strong> all circles on the<br />
sphere (great circles— other than those through the poles<br />
which project in<strong>to</strong> straight lines—and small circles either<br />
parallel or not parallel <strong>to</strong> the equa<strong>to</strong>r) are likewise circles.<br />
It is curious, however, that he does not give any general<br />
pro<strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong> the fact, but is content <strong>to</strong> prove it <strong>of</strong> particular<br />
circles, such as the ecliptic, the horizon, &c. This is remarkable,<br />
because it is easy <strong>to</strong> show that, if a cone be described<br />
with the pole as vertex and passing through any circle on the<br />
sphere, i.e. a circular cone, in general oblique, with that circle<br />
as base, the section <strong>of</strong> the cone <strong>by</strong> the plane <strong>of</strong> the equa<strong>to</strong>r<br />
satisfies the criterion found for the subcontrary sections ' ' <strong>by</strong><br />
Apollonius at the beginning <strong>of</strong> his Conies, and is therefore a<br />
circle. The fact that the method <strong>of</strong> stereographic projection is<br />
so easily connected with the property <strong>of</strong> subcontrary sections