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ASTRONOMICAL TREATISE BY CLAUDIUS PTOLEMY
The Almagest; Mathematike Syntaxis; Magna Syntaxis; Ptolemaic theory of the solar system; Mathematical Syntaxis; Syntaxis Mathematica; Μαθηματικὴ Σύνταξις
  • Picture of [[George of Trebizond]]'s Latin translation of the ''Syntaxis Mathematica'' or ''Almagest''
  • An edition in Latin of the ''Almagestum'' in 1515
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  • Geometric construction used by Hipparchus in his determination of the distances to the Sun and Moon, which was later incorporated into Ptolemy's work
  • Example of a Greek manuscript of the Almagest, showing a table layout for the stars of Ursa Minor. The functions of the columns, colours and rows are labelled in this depiction.
  • 16th-century representation of Ptolemy's [[geocentric model]] in [[Peter Apian]]'s ''Cosmographia'', 1524
  • 1528 copy of a Latin translation of "Almagestum", translated from Greek by [[George of Trebizond]]
  • Table of contents to a 1528 copy of ''Almagest'', translated to Latin from Greek by [[George of Trebizond]]
  • Ptolemy's ''Almagest'' became an authoritative work for many centuries.

Almagest         
['alm?d??st]
¦ noun (the Almagest) an Arabic version of Ptolemy's astronomical treatise.
Origin
ME: from OFr. almageste, based on Arab., from al 'the' + Gk megiste 'greatest (composition)'.
Almagest         
·noun The celebrated work of Ptolemy of Alexandria, which contains nearly all that is known of the astronomical observations and theories of the ancients. The name was extended to other similar works.

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Almagest

The Almagest is a 2nd-century Greek-language mathematical and astronomical treatise on the apparent motions of the stars and planetary paths, written by Claudius Ptolemy (c. AD 100 – c. 170). One of the most influential scientific texts in history, it canonized a geocentric model of the Universe that was accepted for more than 1,200 years from its origin in Hellenistic Alexandria, in the medieval Byzantine and Islamic worlds, and in Western Europe through the Middle Ages and early Renaissance until Copernicus. It is also a key source of information about ancient Greek astronomy.

Ptolemy set up a public inscription at Canopus, Egypt, in 147 or 148. N. T. Hamilton found that the version of Ptolemy's models set out in the Canopic Inscription was earlier than the version in the Almagest. Hence the Almagest could not have been completed before about 150, a quarter-century after Ptolemy began observing.