Ptolemy’s Almagest and the classical planetary model included only the five planets visible to the naked eye, omitting Uranus altogether. Ancient Greek astronomers made impressively advanced ...

Almost 2,000 years ago, in Africa, specifically in the city of Alexandria in Egypt, Claudius Ptolemy wrote a set of 13 books known as Mathematical Syntax. This Ptolemaic treatise summarized the most ...

Hipparchus was, so far as is known, the first to assign magnitudes to the stars, and his results have been preserved for us by Ptolemy in the Almagest.

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Combined with Ptolemy’s work Almagest, dates line up, and give us today an accurate way of counting backwards in time. READ more… (747 BCE) ...

It’s a first-person sandbox crafting and exploration game set in the mysterious Almagest star system, many centuries and lightyears from now. Some trivia: the original Amalgest was a 2nd-century ...

He also published an astronomical treatise called the Almagest, whose fourth volume, Tetrabiblos,. contains many useful hints and tips on meteorology, and was the seminal authority on weather ...

Researchers have managed to decipher the manuscript of the ancient Greek mathematician and astronomer Ptolemy 200 years after its discovery.

Ptolemy wrote the Almagest at Alexandria. It was the most influential scientific book about the nature of the Universe for 1,500 years. The library was later destroyed, possibly by Julius Caesar who ...

â“œ Ptolemy's Catalogue of Stars. A Revision of the Almagest â”. By Dr. C. H F. Peters and E. B. Knobel . Pp. 207. (Washington: Carnegie Institution, 1915.) Google Scholar Download references ...

Ptolemy's original 2,000-year-old treatise in Greek was overwritten with an unrelated text in Latin. Using modern imaging, scientists were able to uncover a hidden manual.