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The Legacy of Ptolemy’s Almagest

Initial Conditions: A Physics History Podcast

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Tollamy's Almajest

Tollamy was an academic astronomer very much in the same way academic astronomers are today. When he wrote it, it must have had an extremely limited audience. The almajest also includes something called the Handy Tables that are astronomical observations. Some he claimed he observed himself, some are by other astronomers like Hipparchus.

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