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The Legacy of Ptolemy’s Almagest

Initial Conditions: A Physics History Podcast

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Ptolemy's Amajest

The Amajest contains astronomical observations and mathematical models to explain celestial phenomena. Ptolemy's brilliance was in his efforts to unite different theories into one framework, similar to what Euclid did for mathematics 400 years earlier. He called it the Great Collection, mathematical collection. But of course, we don't refer to it as such now.

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