Crossword-Solution: ALMAGEST
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Almagest | n. | The celebrated work of Ptolemy of Alexandria, which contains nearly all that is known of the astronomical observations and theories of the ancients. The name was extended to other similar works. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “ALMAGEST”
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| Astronomical treatise by Ptolemy, c. 150 A. D. | 1 answer |
| Medieval treatise | 1 answer |
| Medieval work on alchemy, astrology, etc. | 1 answer |
| PTOLEMAEUS (Claudius), astronomical and mathematical work of | 1 answer |
| PTOLEMY (Claudius), astronomical and mathematical work of | 1 answer |
| Ptolemy classic. | 1 answer |
| Ptolemy treatise on astronomy | 1 answer |
| Ptolemy's star catalog | 1 answer |
| Ptolemy's work on astronomy | 1 answer |
| Work on astronomy | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with ALMAGEST (5)
The book that he has made renders its author this service in return, that so long as the book survives its author remains immortal and cannot die, as Ptolemy declares in the Prologue to his Almagest: He is not dead, he says, who has given life to science.
Thus many learned lawyers contributed to the Pandects, many physicians to the Tegni, and it was by this means that Avicenna edited his Canon, and Pliny his great work on Natural History, and Ptolemy the Almagest.
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.
Gradually philosophic Schools arose, first at Bagdad, and then at Cordova; and the Arabs carried on the task of commenting on Aristotle’s Logic, and Ptolemy’s Megiste Syntaxis—which last acquired from them the name of Almagest, by which it was so long known during the Middle Ages.
The _Cosmographia_ and _Almagest_ of Ptolemy, and the works of some Arabian authors, with books of tables, were the student’s manuals.
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Used 8 times in crossword archives (1959–2008).