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The Legacy of Ptolemy’s Almagest

Initial Conditions: A Physics History Podcast

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Al-Hajaj Ibn Mata Translated From Greek Into Arabic

The only one that I know for sure and is a complete copy of the text of the almajest translated from Greek into Arabic was done by a man by the name of Al-Hajaj ibn Mata, Hajaj is his name. There are references to at least two earlier translations that have not been preserved. And there's good reasons to believe earlier translations existed. The beauty about all of this is that when Hajaj actually produces this fantastic text and we know it dated 829, you find something quite surprising. It has no kind of features of somebody trying to double with the translation of an alien text.

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