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==== Books ==== {{refbegin}} * {{cite book |last= Angelo |first= Joseph A. Jr. |title= Encyclopedia of Space and Astronomy |date= 2006 |edition= 1st |location= New York |publisher= Facts on File |isbn= 978-0-8160-5330-8 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=VUWno1sOwnUC&q=Al+Ma'mun+Almagest+peace+treaty&pg=PA78 |via= books.google.com }} * {{cite book |last= Britton |first= John Phillips |title= Models and Precision: The Quality of Ptolemy's Observations and Parameters |date= 1992 |place= New York |publisher= Garland |isbn= 0-8153-0215-0 |url= https://archive.org/details/modelsprecisionq00brit/ }} * {{cite book |last= Graßhoff |first= Gerd |title= The History of Ptolemy's Star Catalogue |date= 1990 |series= Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences |volume= 14 |location= Berlin |publisher= Springer |isbn= 3-540-97181-5 |doi= 10.1007/978-1-4612-4468-4 |url= https://archive.org/details/historyofptolemy0000gras/ |url-access= limited }}{{Pages needed|date=April 2023}} * {{cite book |last= Halma |first= Nicolas |author-link= Nicholas Halma |date= 1813 |title= Composition mathématique de Claude Ptolémée |volume= 1 |language= fr |location= Paris |publisher= J. Hermann |url= https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k64767c.pdf |via = [[Bibliothèque nationale de France]] }} * {{cite book |last= Halma |first= Nicolas |author-mask=1 |date= 1816 |title= Composition mathématique de Claude Ptolémée |volume= 2 |language= fr |location= Paris |publisher= H. Grand |url= https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k61815p.pdf |via = [[Bibliothèque nationale de France]] }} * {{cite book |last1= Hamilton |first1= N. T. |last2= Swerdlow |first2= N. M. |editor-last1= Berggren |editor-first1= J. L. |editor-last2= Goldstein |editor-first2= B. R. |title= From Ancient Omens to Statistical Mechanics |chapter= The Canobic Inscription: Ptolemy's Earliest Work |date= 1987 |publisher= [[Copenhagen University Library]] |isbn= 978-8-7770-9002-8 }}{{Pages needed |date=April 2019}} * {{cite book |last= Hoffmann |first= Susanne M. |title= Hipparchs Himmelsglobus |language= de |date= 2017 |location= Berlin |publisher= Springer |isbn= 978-3-658-18682-1 |doi= 10.1007/978-3-658-18683-8 |bibcode= 2017hihi.book.....H }}{{Pages needed|date=April 2023}} * {{cite book |last= Hoskin |first= Michael |editor-last= Hoskin |editor-first= Michael |title= The Cambridge Concise History of Astronomy |chapter= 2. Astronomy in Antiquity |date= 1999 |edition= 1st |location= [[Cambridge]], England |publisher= [[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn= 978-0-521-57291-0 }} * {{cite encyclopedia |last= Kunitzsch |first= Paul |editor-last= Selin |editor-first= Helaine |encyclopedia= Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures |title= Almagest: Its Reception and Transmission in the Islamic World |language= English |date= 2008 |pages= 140–141 |edition= 2nd |orig-date= 1997 |location= Berlin |publisher= Springer |isbn= 978-1-4020-4559-2 |doi= 10.1007/978-1-4020-4425-0_8988 |quote= Around AD 150, Ptolemy wrote his great handbook of astronomy called ''Mathematike Syntaxis''... }} * {{cite book |last= Lichtenstein |first= Petrus |title= Claudius Ptolemaeus Almagestum |date= 1515 |language= La |location= Venice |url= https://dokumen.tips/documents/claudius-ptolemaeus-almagestum-1515.html |oclc= 644484399 |access-date= 31 May 2014 |via= Astronomy Library of the Vienna University }} * {{cite book |last1= Peters |first1= Christian Heinrich Friedrich |author-link1= Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters |last2= Knobel |first2= Edward Ball |author-link2= Edward Knobel |title= Ptolemy's Catalogue of the Stars – A Revision of the Almagest |date= 1915 |publisher= [[Carnegie Institution of Washington]] |volume= 86 |url= https://archive.org/details/cu31924012300491/page/n11/mode/2up }} * {{cite book |last= Ptolemy |first= Claudius |author-link= Ptolemy |date= 1952 |editor1-last= Hutchins |editor1-first= Robert Maynard |editor1-link= Robert Maynard Hutchins |editor2-last= Adler |editor2-first= Mortimer J. |editor2-link= Mortimer J. Adler |contribution= The Almagest <!-- |at= Book I, Chapter 5, p.9 --> |title=Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler |place=Chicago |publisher= Encyclopaedia Brittanica, Inc |url= https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.547436/page/n23 }} * {{cite book |last= Ptolemy |first= Claudius |author-mask=1 |translator-last= Perry |translator-first= Bruce M. |editor-last= Donahue |editor-first= William H. |title= The Almagest: Introduction to the Mathematics of the Heavens |language= English |date= 2014 |location= [[Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe]], NM |publisher= Green Lion Press |isbn= 978-1-88800-943-9 }} * {{Cite book |last= Saliba |first= George |author-link= George Saliba |editor-last= Buchwald |editor-first= Jed Z. |date= 2011 |orig-date= 2007 |title= Islamic Science and the Making of European Renaissance |edition= 2nd |location= Cambridge, Mass. |publisher= [[MIT Press]] |isbn= 978-0-262-51615-0 }} * {{cite book |last= Shank |first= Michael H. |date= 2020 |chapter= Regiomontanus ''versus'' George of Trebizond on Planetary Order, Distances, and Orbs (''Almagest'' 9.1) |editor-last1= Juste |editor-first1= David |editor-last2= van Dalen |editor-first2= Benno |editor-last3= Hasse |editor-first3= Dag Nikolaus |editor-last4= Burnett |editor-first4= Charles |title= Ptolemy's Science of the Stars in the Middle Ages |series= Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus |pages= 305–307 |location= Turnhout |publisher= Brepols |chapter-url= https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/pdf/10.1484/M.PALS-EB.5.120184 |isbn= 978-2-503-58639-7 |doi= 10.1484/M.PALS-EB.5.120189 |doi-access=free }} * {{cite book |last= Tomarchio |first= John |date= 2022 |title= A Sourcebook for Ancient Greek: Grammar, Poetry, and Prose |location= Washington, D.C. |publisher= [[CUA Press]] |isbn= 978-1-949822-20-5 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=_dOUEAAAQBAJ }} * {{cite book |last= Toomer |first= G. J. |author-link= G. J. Toomer |date= 1984 |title= Ptolemy's Almagest |location= London |publisher= [[Duckworth Books]] |isbn= 978-0-387-91220-2 }} {{refend}}
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