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Almagest
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Almagest
The
Almagest
is a 2nd-century
mathematical
and
astronomical
treatise on the apparent motions of the
stars
and
planetary
paths. Written in
Greek
by
Claudius Ptolemy
, a
Roman era
scholar of
Egypt
, it is one of the most influential scientific texts of all time, with its
geocentric model
accepted for more than twelve hundred 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
.
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