Site Navigation
Categories:
Ancient Greek astronomical works
Arabic words and phrases
Astronomy books
History of astronomy
Works of Ptolemy of Alexandria
Ancient astronomy
2nd century books
Astrological texts
All articles with unsourced statements
Articles with unsourced statements since August 2008
All articles with dead external links
Articles with dead external links since May 2008

Summary Of: Almagest

The Almagest has also been valuable to students of mathematics because it provides information on the ancient... s Almagest became an authoritative work for many centuries... s Almagest became an authoritative work for many centuries... Almagest Planetary Model Animations...

Encyclodia Page On: Almagest

These Are Links To Other Documents
Latin | Arabic | mathematical | astronomical | treatise | stars | planetary | Greek | Ptolemy | Alexandria | Egypt | 2nd century | geocentric model | European | citation needed | Greek astronomy | Hipparchus | Canopus | Aristotelian | Earth | fixed stars | planets | chords | ecliptic | spherical trigonometry | latitude | Sun | gnomon | equinoxes | solstices | ecliptic | Sun | Hipparchus | precession of the equinoxes | epicycles | Moon | parallax | apogee | eclipses | stars | precession | equinoxes | star catalogue | constellations | magnitude | Hipparchus | naked eye planets | retrogradations | zodiac | ecliptic | 16th-century representation of the Ptolemaic geocentric model. | | geocentric model | planetary spheres | Plato | Martianus Capella | Apollonius of Perga | deferent and epicycle | Hipparchus | Mesopotamian astronomy | equant | Ptolemy's Almagest became an authoritative work for many centuries, as this 16th-century portrait of him as a Renaissance mathematician shows | | caliph | Al-Ma'mun | Europe | astrological | Western Europe | twelfth century | Latin | Frederick II | Gerard of Cremona | Toledo | Spain | Gerard of Cremona | 15th century | Regiomontanus | Greek | Johannes, Cardinal Bessarion | translation | George of Trebizond | Pope Nicholas V | Theon of Alexandria | Pappus of Alexandria | Ammonius Hermiae | Britannica Great Books | ISBN 0-691-00260-6 | Nicholas Halma | Star cartography | ISBN 0-19-509539-1 | ISBN 87-7492-087-1 | ISBN 0-521-40340-5 | v | d | Greek astronomy | Acoreus | Aglaonike | Agrippa | Anaximander | Andronicus | Apollonius | Aratus | Aristarchus | Aristillus | Attalus | Autolycus | Bion | Callippus | Cleomedes | Cleostratus | Conon | Eratosthenes | Euctemon | Eudoxus | Geminus | Heraclides | Hicetas | Hipparchus | Hippocrates of Chios | Hypsicles | Menelaus | Meton | Oenopides | Philip of Opus | Philolaus | Posidonius | Ptolemy | Seleucus | Sosigenes of Alexandria | Sosigenes the Peripatetic | Thales | Theodosius | Theon of Alexandria | Theon of Smyrna | Timocharis | On Sizes and Distances (Hipparchus) | On the Sizes and Distances (Aristarchus) | On the Heavens (Aristotle) | Antikythera mechanism | Armillary sphere | Astrolabe | Dioptra | Equatorial ring | Mural quadrant | Triquetrum | Callippic cycle | Celestial spheres | Counter-Earth | Deferent and epicycle | Equant | Geocentrism | Heliocentrism | Hipparchic cycle | Metonic cycle | Octaeteris | Spherical Earth | Sublunary sphere | v | d | Greek mathematics | Anaxagoras | Anthemius | Archytas | Aristaeus the Elder | Aristarchus | Apollonius | Archimedes | Autolycus | Bion | Boethius | Bryson | Callippus | Carpus | Chrysippus | Cleomedes | Conon | Ctesibius | Democritus | Dicaearchus | Diocles | Diophantus | Dinostratus | Dionysodorus | Domninus | Eratosthenes | Eudemus | Euclid | Eudoxus | Eutocius | Geminus | Heron | Hipparchus | Hippasus | Hippias | Hippocrates | Hypatia | Hypsicles | Marinus | Menaechmus | Menelaus | Nicomachus | Nicomedes | Nicoteles | Oenopides | Pappus | Perseus | Philolaus | Philon | Porphyry | Posidonius | Proclus | Ptolemy | Pythagoras | Serenus | Simplicius | Sosigenes | Sporus | Thales | Theaetetus | Theano | Theodorus | Theodosius | Theon of Alexandria | Theon of Smyrna | Thymaridas | Xenocrates | Zeno of Elea | Zeno of Sidon | Zenodorus | Archimedes Palimpsest | Arithmetica | Conics | Elements | On the Sizes and Distances (Aristarchus) | On Sizes and Distances (Hipparchus) | On the Moving Sphere | Academy of Athens | Library of Alexandria | Cyrene | Babylonian mathematics | Egyptian mathematics | European mathematics | Indian mathematics | Islamic mathematics | Timetable of Greek mathematicians | Categories | Ancient Greek astronomical works | Arabic words and phrases | Astronomy books | History of astronomy | Works of Ptolemy of Alexandria | Ancient astronomy | 2nd century books | Astrological texts | All articles with unsourced statements | Articles with unsourced statements since August 2008 | All articles with dead external links | Articles with dead external links since May 2008 |
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Almagest".