Definitions for Almagest
ˈæl məˌdʒɛstal·magest

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1. almagestnoun

   A comprehensive treaty on astronomy, geography, and mathematics compiled by Ptolemy circa 150 .

2. almagestnoun

   Any of several medieval treatises, especially those concerned with astronomy or alchemy.

3. Etymology: المجسطي, which is an addition of the Arabic definite article to a transliteration of μεγίστη

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1. 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.

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1. Almagestnoun

   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

2. Etymology: [F. almageste, LL. almageste, Ar. al-majist, fr. Gr. (sc. ), the greatest composition.]

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1. 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. The Almagest is the critical source of information on ancient Greek astronomy. It has also been valuable to students of mathematics because it documents the ancient Greek mathematician Hipparchus's work, which has been lost. Hipparchus wrote about trigonometry, but because his works no longer exist, mathematicians use Ptolemy's book as their source for Hipparchus's work and ancient Greek trigonometry in general. The treatise's conventional Greek title is Μαθηματικὴ Σύνταξις, and the treatise is also known by the Latin form of this, Syntaxis mathematic. It was later titled Hē Megalē Syntaxis, and the superlative form of this lies behind the Arabic name al-majisṭī, from which the English name Almagest derives.

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1. Almagest

   al′ma-jest, n. a collection of problems in geometry and astronomy, drawn up by the Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy (about 140 A.D.), so named by the Arabs as the greatest and largest on the subject. [Ar. al, the, and Gr. megistos, greatest.]

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1. almagest

   The celebrated work of Ptolemy on geometry and astronomy. Ricciolus adopted the term in 1651 for his Body of Mathematical Science. It became general, whence Chaucer-- "His Almagiste and bookes, grete and small."

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   The numerical value of Almagest in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

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   The numerical value of Almagest in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Almagest
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almagest
3. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Almagest
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Almagest
5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Almagest
6. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=Almagest