Nor was he alone in taking such a route: works such as Ptolemy’s Almagest, fundamental for the medieval study of the heavens, seemed to inhabitants of Christian western Europe easier to understand ...

Hipparchus was, so far as is known, the first to assign magnitudes to the stars, and his results have been preserved for us by Ptolemy in the Almagest. The classification of Hipparchus was a crude ...

Greek and Roman myths are violent and ugly, sure. But apologizing for art — especially the classics — is a bad idea ...

Combined with Ptolemy’s work Almagest, dates line up, and give us today an accurate way of counting backwards in time. READ more… (747 BCE) Nabonassar in Akkadian – G. Bertin – Bertin ...

This was truly a testament to the growing sophistication with which the Greeks observed the sky. However, it was Ptolemy who compiled the Almagest. This was a book of comprehensive theories that ...

Almagest Space Corporation, a US-based company developing a global low earth orbit (LEO) highly-secure data relay constellation for a wide range of Government and commercial applications, today ...

Almagest plans to deploy its constellation in phases, commencing in 2026- 2027 with its TWINSTAR Mission, consisting of two FSO-connected satellites providing two- way high-throughput point-to ...

The spacecraft will test the world’s first miniaturized space-grade E-band communication payload, and measurement and other transmission data will be used to develop advanced propagation models for ...

Almagest Space Corporation, a US-based company developing a global low earth orbit (LEO) highly-secure data relay constellation for a wide range of Government and commercial applications, today ...

During the Abbasid Caliphate, Arab scholars translated and expanded upon Greek works like Ptolemy’s Almagest, preserving vital knowledge and integrating it with Islamic astronomical practices. As a ...

For their latest partnership, the luxury travel purveyor Rimowa has tapped British abstract artist Ptolemy Mann. She is adept at working with intricate, vivid textiles and now adds her colorful ...