Ammonius

Ammonius wrote a commentary on Ptolemy's Almagest.

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Ptolemy: :This article is about the geographer and astronomer Ptolemy. For Alexander the Great's general, see Ptolemy I of Egypt. For others named "Ptolemy" or "Ptolemaeus", see Ptolemy (disambiguation)....

Almagest: Almagest is the Latin form of the Arabic name (al-kitabu-l-mijisti, i.e. "The Great Book") of an astronomical/astrological treatise proposing the complex motions of the stars and planetary paths, originally written in Greek as H? Megal? Syntaxis by Ptolemy of Alexandria, Egypt. The date of Almagest ...