Ptolemy

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 1933. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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The last important astronomer of classical antiquity, Ptolemy is also the only one whose works have come down to us substantially intact. His Almagest, a comprehensive empirical and mathematical deduction of models to explain the motions and phenomena of the heavenly bodies, laid the methodological foundation for the Islamic and European mathematical astronomy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance....

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