… the ages, the Almagest, his treatise on Greek astronomy; the Geography, a treatise on the
cartography of the Persian and Roman world; and the Tetrabiblos, a treatise on astrology. …

… (in this respect, the models of Copernicus and Kepler are similar). As such, the fact that
the model described in the Almagest is geocentric in nature is a non-issue, since the earth is …

… The same can be said of the two Alexandrian scholars who commented on the Almagest
during the course of the … , the date for which, in his commentary on Almagest VI 4, he computed …

… We know but little about the author of the Almagest. His life … eminent scientists of the ancient
world, but the reason is close … - but only because the former happened to be the teacher of a …

… The star catalogue lists 1028 stars, ostensibly for the epoch 137 AD, and as observed from
… analysed the magnitude data in the Almagest, especially for the purpose of establishing the …

… and the Explanation of this Section’.The passage of the Almagest on which Ibn al-Ṣalaḥ …
.17 but in Chapter V.19 as we know it from the Greek text and the extant Arabic translations. …

… for the … , the same translations which complement the Almagest in the present volume.
These arrangements failed to culminate, and so it happened that the present publishers had the …

… of the catalogue of the Almagest to two sources: (1) the direct Greek tradition; and (2) the
Arabic, which represents the … two translations of the Almagest made at Baghdad,* or that the first …

… of the Almagest). B has two ‘layers’ of scholia: a set in the same hand that wrote the text of the
Almagest… lia are based in part on the late fourth-century Almagest commentary by Theon of …

… to the mathematical tools we all learn in school. Where the pupils of Pappus and Theon read
the Almagest to … whose subject matter lies at the extreme margins of modern astronomy and …