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almagest|ˈælmədʒɛst|
Also 4 almagesti, almageste.
[a. OFr. almageste, ad. (ult.) Arab. al-majistī, ad. (with article al the) Gr. µεγίστη greatest (sc. σύνταξις composition); applied by the Arabs (and previously, it is inferred, in the Greek schools of Alexandria) to the great treatise of Ptolemy, Μαθηµατική σύνταξις, in contradistinction to the elementary works studied before it.]
The great astronomical treatise of Ptolemy; extended in middle ages to other great text-books of astrology and alchemy.
c1386Chaucer Miller's T. 22 His almageste and bokes gret and smale, His astrelabre longing for his art. 1393Gower Conf. III. 134 Danz Tholome is nought the lest Which maketh the boke of almagest. 1614Selden Titles of Hon. 74 The starres placed in his almagest are of that time. c1680Sir T. Browne Tracts 179 Welcome might be a true Almagest. 1714Derham Astroth. 6 (Jod.) The particulars..he may find them in Riccioli's Almagest. 1805Scott Last Minstr. vi. xvii, On cross, and character, and talisman, And almagest, and altar, nothing bright. 1878Newcomb Pop. Astron. i. i. 32 The ‘Almagest’ of Ptolemy, composed about the middle of the second century of our era. |