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Anne Tihon (born 1944) is a Belgian
historian of science
The history of science covers the development of science from ancient times to the present. It encompasses all three major branches of science: natural, social, and formal.
Science's earliest roots can be traced to Ancient Egypt and Meso ...
specializing in the
history of astronomy
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, with works on
Theon of Alexandria
Theon of Alexandria (; grc, Θέων ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς; 335 – c. 405) was a Greek scholar and mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt. He edited and arranged Euclid's '' Elements'' and wrote commentaries on works ...
,
Byzantine astronomy
Byzantine science played an important role in the transmission of classical knowledge to the Islamic world and to Renaissance Italy, and also in the transmission of Islamic science to Renaissance Italy. Its rich historiographical tradition prese ...
, and
astronomical tables. She is a
professor emerita
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in the Faculty of Philosophy, Arts and Letters of the
Université catholique de Louvain
The Université catholique de Louvain (also known as the Catholic University of Louvain, the English translation of its French name, and the University of Louvain, its official English name) is Belgium's largest French-speaking university. It ...
.
Books
Tihon's books and
critical edition
Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts or of printed books. Such texts may range in da ...
s include:
*''Barlaam de Seminara, Traités sur les éclipses de soleil de 1333 et 1337''
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*''Le_petit_commentaire_de_Théon_d'Alexandrie_aux_tables_faciles_de_Ptolémée''_[The_''Theon_of_Alexandria#Commentaries.html" ;"title="Barlaam_of_Seminara.html" ;"title="
Barlaam_of_Seminara's_treatises_on_the_solar_eclipses_of_1333_and_1337">Barlaam_of_Seminara.html"_;"title="Barlaam_of_Seminara">Barlaam_of_Seminara's_treatises_on_the_solar_eclipses_of_1333_and_1337_with_Joseph_Mogenet_and_Daniel_Donnet,_Éditions_Peeters,_1977
*''Le_petit_commentaire_de_Théon_d'Alexandrie_aux_tables_faciles_de_Ptolémée''_[The_''Theon_of_Alexandria#Commentaries">Little_Commentary''_of_
Theon_of_Alexandria_
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_on_Ptolemy's_''Ptolemy#Astronomy.html" "title="Barlaam of Seminara">Barlaam of Seminara's treatises on the solar eclipses of 1333 and 1337">Barlaam_of_Seminara.html" ;"title="Barlaam of Seminara">Barlaam of Seminara's treatises on the solar eclipses of 1333 and 1337 with Joseph Mogenet and Daniel Donnet, Éditions Peeters, 1977
*''Le petit commentaire de Théon d'Alexandrie aux tables faciles de Ptolémée'' [The ''Theon of Alexandria#Commentaries">Little Commentary'' of
Theon of Alexandria
Theon of Alexandria (; grc, Θέων ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς; 335 – c. 405) was a Greek scholar and mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt. He edited and arranged Euclid's '' Elements'' and wrote commentaries on works ...
on Ptolemy's ''Ptolemy#Astronomy">Handy Tables
Ptolemy's Handy Tables or ''Ptolemaiou'' ''Procheiroi kanones'' is a collection of astronomical tables that second century astronomer Ptolemy created after finishing the Almagest. The Handy Tables elaborated the astronomical tables of the Almagest a ...
''], Studi e Testi Roma, 1978
*''Le "Grand Commentaire" de Theon d'Alexandrie aux tables faciles de Ptolemee'', Vatican Library, Vol. I (with Joseph Mogenet), 1985; Vols. II–III, 1991; Vol. IV, 1999
*''Études d'astronomie byzantine''
tudies in Byzantine astronomy Ashgate, 1994
*''Georges Gémiste Pléthon, Manuel d'astronomie''
Gemistus Pletho
Georgios Gemistos Plethon ( el, Γεώργιος Γεμιστός Πλήθων; la, Georgius Gemistus Pletho /1360 – 1452/1454), commonly known as Gemistos Plethon, was a Greek scholar and one of the most renowned philosophers of the late Byza ...
, Manual of astronomy], with Raymond Mercier, Academia Bruylant, 1998
*''Une version Byzantine du traité sur l'astrolabe du Pseudo-Messahalla''
Pseudo-Messahalla.html" ;"title=" Byzantine version of the Mashallah ibn Athari, Pseudo-Messahalla"> Byzantine version of the Mashallah ibn Athari, Pseudo-Messahalla astrolabe treatise with Régine Leurquin and Claudy Scheuren, Bruylant, 2001
*''Πτολεμαιου προχειροι κανονες: Les Tables Faciles de Ptolémée'' [Ptolomy's ''Handy Tables''], Vols. Ia–Ib, with Raymond Mercier, Université catholique de Louvain, 2011
*''Conformément aux observations d'Hipparque : le Papyrus Fouad inv. 267A'' [In accordance with Hipparchus's observations: the Papyrus Fouad inv. 267A], with
Jean-Luc Fournet and Raymond Mercier, Université catholique de Louvain, 2014
Recognition
Tihon became a corresponding member of the
International Academy of the History of Science The International Academy of the History of Science (french: Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences) is a membership organization for historians of science.
The academy was founded on 17 August 1928 at the Congress of Historical Science by ...
in 1986, and was raised to a full member in 2002.
References
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Living people
20th-century Belgian historians
Belgian women historians
Historians of astronomy
Academic staff of the Université catholique de Louvain
1944 births
21st-century Belgian historians