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Olaf Pedersen, A Survey of the Almagest (1974), is helpful in understanding and appreciating Ptolemy’s methods and results. G.J. Toomer (trans. and ed.), Ptolemy’s Almagest (1984; reissued 1998), is the best translation of the Almagest in any modern language and is based on the Greek text.
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Invalidated site: Internet Archive - "The Almagest". | Nov 10, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Institute of Physics - Initial Conditions Episode 11: The Legacy of Ptolemy's Almagest. | Jun 17, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: NYU Libraries - Faculty Digital Archive - Limits of observation and pseudoempirical arguments in Ptolemys Harmonics and Almagest (PDF). | Oct 22, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The University of Texas at Austin - Ptolemy?s Almagest: Fact and Fiction. | Jul 30, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - A Re-Analysis of the Eclipse Observations in Ptolemy�s Almagest (PDF). | May 15, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Internet Archive - "The Almagest". | Jan 02, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Mathematical Association of America - Mathematical Treasure: Ptolemy�s Almagest. | Aug 24, 2022 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Nov 29, 2021 | ||
| Article revised. | Jun 21, 2002 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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