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The Legacy of Ptolemy’s Almagest

Initial Conditions: A Physics History Podcast

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Tollamy's Almajest

The almajest is a mathematical model by which you can predict where the planets will be two weeks from now, one month from now and so on. Dr. Tollamy even states that his reader needs to be familiar with Euclidean geometry before attempting to understand it.

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