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Detailed explanation-1: -The Almagest /ˈælmədʒɛst/ is a 2nd-century Greek-language mathematical and astronomical treatise on the apparent motions of the stars and planetary paths, written by Claudius Ptolemy ( c. AD 100 – c. 170).

Detailed explanation-2: -In the Almagest, Ptolemy proposed a mathematical model to explain and predict the motions of celestial objects. Though his geocentric model was debunked by the 16th century, the text facilitated the great observations and models produced by medieval Arabic astronomers.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Almagest is a book about the motion of the planets and the position of the stars written about AD 150 by Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus of Alexandria). It was the main astronomical manual for Islamic and European astronomers until the days of Kepler and Galileo around the turn of the 16th to the 17th century .