n. 1.《天文学大成》〔公元二世纪时托勒密作的天文学数学名著〕。 2.〔a-〕 (中古时代)占星学书；点金术书。
The Almagest is a 2nd-century mathematical and astronomical treatise on the apparent motions of the stars and planetary paths. Written in Greek by Claudius Ptolemy, a Roman era scholar of Egypt, it is one of the most influential scientific texts of all time, with its geocentric model accepted for more than twelve hundred years from its origin in Hellenistic Alexandria, in the medieval Byzantine and Islamic worlds, and in Western Europe through the Middle Ages and early Renaissance until Copernicus.
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George peurbach of vienna started to correct the latin translations of the " almagest " 维也纳的乔治?柏巴赫开始校订《大汇编》的拉丁文译本。
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