Category:Almagest
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The star catalogue in the Almagest is based on the epoch 20 July 137 CE (1 Thoth 885 Nabonassar). It's author is given as the librarian of Alexandria (Egypt), Claudius Ptolemy and its original title is Μαθηματικὴ Σύνταξις (Mathēmatikē Syntaxis).
It served as the standard book on astronomy for the next millennium in both the Christian and the Islamic tradition. As such, it was translated from the original Greek into Arabic and later into mediaeval Latin.
| Ptolemaios
(Greek, Heiberg's edition 1898) |
English
(Toomer 1984) |
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| ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ νοτίου μέρους ἀστέρες τις, ὥν α μεγέθους ξ, | Total for the southern region 316 stars, 7 of the first magnitude, 18 of the second, 63 of the third, 164 of the fourth, 54 of the fifth, 9 of the sixth, 1 nebulous. | ||
| ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ πάντες ἀστέρες απβ, ὥν α μεγέθους ἱὲ, β’ μὲ, 21 ὁ Πλόκαμος. | Total for all stars 1022, 15 of the first magnitude, 45 of the second, 208 of the third, 474 of the fourth, 217 of the fifth, 49 of the sixth, 9 faint, 5 nebulous, plus Coma [Berenices] |
Pages in category "Almagest"
The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total.
