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TEXT

The Almagest

Title (arabic)

المجسطي

Title (translit)

The Almagest

Alias

المجسطي لبطلميوس

Author

Ptolemy, Claudius

Created in

Alexandria

Language

Greek-classical

Subject

Astronomy: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam

Text type

First-order prose composition (or compilation) [matn]

Other versions

[Abridgement of “Almagest”]
Kitāb al-Majisṭī (Būzjānī)
Iṣlāḥ al-Majisṭī (Jābir ibn Aflaḥ)
Kitāb ikhtiṣār al-majisṭī
Tashīl al-Majisṭī
Mukhtaṣar al-Majisṭī
[Revision of "Almagest"] (Qazwīnī)
Risālah fī dhikr al-aflāk wa-ḥalaqihā wa-ʿadad ḥarakātihā wa-miqdār masīrihā
Mukhtaṣar al-Majisṭī (al-Ḥāzimī)
Taqrīb al-Ṭaḥrīr [P]

Translated in

[Ḥajjāj trans. of Ptolemy's Almagest]
[Almagest translation]
[Sanskrit Translation of Ptolemy's "Almagest"]

Commented in

[Arabic Commentary on “Almagest”] (Barhebraeus)
Sharḥ al-Majisṭī
Tafsīr al-Majisṭī
Sharḥ al-Majisṭī wa-talkhīṣuhu
Sharḥ al-Majisṭī
Sharḥ al-Majisṭī
Sharḥ al-Majisṭī

ismi_id

142331

Literature References

Ptolemy, Claudius. 1984. Ptolemy’s Almagest. Trans. Gerald Toomer. New York: Springer-Verlag.
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