A book or collection of problems in astronomy and geometry, drawn up by Ptolemy. The same title has been given to other works of the like kind.
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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.
Almagest
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ALMAGEST, compounded of the Arabic al and μεγίστη, the name applied by the Arabians to their translation of the Meγαλη Σύταξις of Claudius Ptolemy, which contains a large collection of problems in geometry and astronomy. The translation was made about the year 827 a.d. by order of the caliph Al-Mamun. The name is also applied to other editions and translations of the work, as well as to other scientific compilations. Thus Riccioli published a book of astronomy, the New Almagest, and Plukenet an Almagestum Botanicum.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 1, p. 589
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