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the book that convinced humanity the sun revolved around us for 1,400 years.

means a comprehensive treatise, especially an old astronomical or mathematical text laying out a complete system of the world.

from ptolemy wrote it in greek around 150 ce as the mathematical syntaxis; arabic scholars translated it as al-majisti, meaning the greatest, and that name stuck through latin and into english.

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