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In the 2nd century<\/strong>, Claudius Ptolemy<\/strong> published a treatise on astronomy<\/strong> titled H\u00e8 magal\u00e8 syntaxis<\/strong>, which in Arabic became known as Almagest<\/strong>. The work includes an extensive list of stars<\/strong>, explains the apparent movement of the stars and offers the description of a geocentric system<\/strong> (which locates the Land<\/strong> in the center of the universe).<\/p>\n

\"Almagest\"To develop your treatise, Ptolemy<\/strong> started from a catalog of stars<\/strong> that I had created Hipparchus of Nicaea<\/strong>. The Almagest<\/strong> presents thirteen volumes, beginning with the exposition of the geocentric system and ending with a detail of the method followed by the author to calculate the trajectories and positions of the planets.<\/p>\n

Ptolemy<\/strong> provides information on forty-eight constellations in the Almagest<\/strong>. The astronomer also exposes the foundations of the geocentric system, with the planets, the Moon<\/strong> and the Sun<\/strong> revolving around the Land<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It is important to mention that Ptolemy<\/strong> wrote his book<\/strong> in Greek. In the 9th century<\/strong>, the caliph Al-Mamun<\/strong> promoted the translation of the text into Arabic, which came to be referred to as Al-Majisti<\/strong> (translatable as \"The biggest\"<\/em>). Finally the work went down in history as Almagest<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The popularity of Almagest<\/strong> in the western world it came through its Arabic version. Just in the XII century<\/strong> the Almagest<\/strong> was translated into our language<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It should be noted that the geocentric system that postulated Ptolemy<\/strong> was the theory<\/strong> predominant to explain the orbits of the planets until Copernicus<\/strong> proposed the heliocentric model<\/strong>. Later, Galileo Galilei<\/strong> Y Johannes kepler<\/strong> they contributed more data that consolidated the heliocentrism.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n

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