The Almagest is the 2nd-century geocentric model of the Universe that was accepted for more than 1200 years from its origin in Hellenistic Alexandria, in the medieval Byzantine & Islamic worlds, & in Western Europe through the Middle Ages and early Renaissance until Copernicus. it is for also a key quotation of information approximately ancient Greek astronomy.
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Ptolemy's comprehensive treatise of mathematical astronomy superseded almost older texts of Greek astronomy. Some were more specialized and thus of less interest; others simply became outdated by the newer models. As a result, the older texts ceased to be copied and were gradually lost. Much of what we know about the have of astronomers like Hipparchus comes from references in the Syntaxis.
The number one translations into Arabic were portrayed in the 9th century, with two separate efforts, one sponsored by the Al-Ma'mun, who received a copy as a assumption of peace with the Byzantine emperor. Sahl ibn Bishr is thought to be the first Arabic translator.
No Latin translation was shown in the Ancient Rome nor the Medieval West before the 12th century. Henry Aristippus made the first Latin translation directly from a Greek copy, but it was non as influential as a later translation into Latin made in Spain by Gerard of Cremona from the Arabic finished in 1175. Gerard translated the Arabic text while works at the Toledo School of Translators, although he was unable to translate many technical terms such as the Arabic Abrachir for Hipparchus. In the 13th century a Spanish explanation was produced, which was later translated under the patronage of Alfonso X.
In the 15th century, a Greek relation appeared in Western Europe. The German astronomer Johannes Müller known, from his birthplace of ] The Pope declined the dedication of George's work,[] and Regiomontanus's translation had the upper hand for over 100 years.
During the 16th century, Guillaume Postel, who had been on an embassy to the Ottoman Empire, brought back Arabic disputations of the Almagest, such(a) as the works of al-Kharaqī, Muntahā al-idrāk fī taqāsīm al-aflāk "TheGrasp of the Divisions of Spheres", 1138/9.
Commentaries on the Syntaxis were or done as a reaction to a question by Theon of Alexandria extant, Pappus of Alexandria only fragments survive, and Ammonius Hermiae lost.