| LC control no. | n 83229412 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Ptolemy, active 2nd century. Almagest |
| Variant(s) | Ptolemaeus, Claudius. Almagestum Ptolemy, 2nd cent. Almagest Ptolemy, active 2nd century. Almagestum Ptolemy, active 2nd century. Great collection Ptolemy, active 2nd century. Majisti Ptolemy, active 2nd century. Mathēmatikē syntaxis Ptolemy, active 2nd century. Megalē syntaxis Ptolemy, active 2nd century. Megas astronomos Ptolemy, active 2nd century. Megistē syntaxis Ptolemy, active 2nd century. Syntaxis of Ptolemy |
| Found in | His Ptolemy's Almagest, 1984, c1983: t.p. (Almagest) Enc. brit. (Almagest) LC data base, 10-19-83 (hdg.: Ptolemaeus, Claudius. Almagestum; usage: Almagest, Almagestum) Oxf. clas. dict. (originally called Mathēmatikē syntaxis, became known as Megalē syntaxis, Great Collection; the Arabs turned megistē into al-Majisti, whence Almagest) Enc. amer. (Almagest. Megistē syntaxis) Enc. Brit., 11th ed. (Ptolemy: Mathēmatikē syntaxis or Megalē syntaxis tēs astronomias (Syntaxis of Ptolemy), called Ho megas astronomos) |
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