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==History== Written possibly around 150 CE, the text survives as copies, the oldest being from the 9th century<ref name="o547">{{cite web | title=Grec 2389 | website=Gallica | url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8470171d | language=fr | access-date=2024-11-23}}</ref> when Arabic scholars started to translate the text, which in turn have survived in copies from the 11th<ref name="p866">{{cite web | title=PAL: Tunis, Dār al-kutub al-waṭaniyya, 7116 | website=Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus | date=2024-10-23 | url=https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/ms/669 | access-date=2024-11-23}}</ref> and 13th<ref name="h341">{{cite web | title=al- Miǵisṭī (translation of Ptolemy) Or. 680 | website=Digital Collections | url=https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/view/item/1871093#page/1/mode/1up | language=af | access-date=2024-11-23}}</ref><ref name="i465">{{cite web | title=PAL: Ptolemy, al-Majisṭī (tr.al-Ḥajjāj) | website=Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus | date=2024-11-14 | url=https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/work/200 | access-date=2024-11-23}}</ref> century.<ref name="k352">{{cite journal | last=Zieme | first=Stefan | title=Gerard of Cremona's Latin translation of the Almagest and the revision of tables | journal=Journal for the History of Astronomy | volume=54 | issue=1 | date=2023 | issn=0021-8286 | doi=10.1177/00218286221140848 | doi-access=free | pages=3–33| bibcode=2023JHA....54....3Z }}</ref>
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