almagest

Definitions


[ˈalmədʒɛst], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an influential treatise on astronomy written by the Greek astronomer and geographer Ptolemy in the second century AD


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Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French almageste, based on Arabic, from al ‘the’ + Greek megistē ‘greatest (composition)’




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