The Almagest

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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

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