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Almagest

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Al·ma·gest  (lm-jst)
n.
1. A comprehensive treatise on astronomy, geography, and mathematics compiled by Ptolemy about a.d. 150.
2. almagest Any of several medieval treatises concerned with astronomy or alchemy.

[Middle English almageste, from Old French, from Arabic al-majisti : al-, the + Greek megist (suntaxis), greatest (composition), feminine of megistos, greatest, superlative of megas, great; see meg- in Indo-European roots.]

Almagest [ˈælməˌdʒɛst]
n
1. (Astronomy) a work on astronomy compiled by Ptolemy in the 2nd century a.d containing a description of the geocentric system of the universe and a star catalogue.
2. (Historical Terms) (sometimes not capital) any of various similar medieval treatises on astrology, astronomy, or alchemy
[from Old French, from Arabic al-majisti, from al the + majisti, from Greek megistē greatest (treatise)]


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But when it came to almagest and astrolabe, the counting of figures and reckoning of epicycles, away would go her thoughts to horse and hound, and a vacant eye and listless face would warn the teacher that he had lost his hold upon his scholar.
 
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