Ars Astronomica: Translating Rare Hebrew and Latin Astronomy Texts into English
Ars Astronomica – English translations of rare Hebrew and Latin astronomy texts
I am producing first English translations of historical Hebrew and Latin works in astronomy, cosmology, and natural philosophy. These texts span centuries, including manuscripts that have never been printed, allowing readers to finally see how these scholars cited and answered one another on the same cosmological questions in a single language.
One – Gersonides’ 136-chapter mathematical astronomy – was never printed and survives only in manuscript.
- lordgrenville
While it's really cool that this is possible now, this project seems to be a thin wrapper around running Claude. Presumably, someone who wanted to read one of these books could just run it through Claude themselves with comparable results.
Sharing some artifact of your own added value, or things you learned in the process, would be more interesting to me than the output.
- dwohnitmok
"All translations in this collection are © Scott Weisman. All rights reserved, except as granted by the license below."
Does copyright actually belong to Scott Weisman if all the words are outputs of LLMs? Is there any relevant case law here? I'm very curious about whether LLM outputs are copyrightable by the LLM user (I'm guessing potentially it varies throughout the world).
- mondainx
Don't get me wrong, this is awesome, but it could be better by adding Greek and Arabic, and possibly Sumerian documents?
- deluvenec
As a jew: it would be better to put up a site which does not risk to create the false impression of somehow comparable contribution of early european astronomers and medieval (and not so medieval) rabbis.
- tulio_ribeiro
Hey, man. Great work and thanks for sharing this as CC.