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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.
geocentric modelplaced earth at the center for 14 centuries
star cataloglisted 1,022 stars with coordinates and brightness
survival routesaved by arabic scholars while europe forgot it
toppled bycopernicus finally dethroned it in 1543