Batlamiyus (al-Qaludhi) Ptolemy(the son of Claudius)...

Batlamiyus (al-Qaludhi) Ptolemy(the son of Claudius): Astronomer, mathematician, geographer and physicist of Alexandria of 2nd century C.E.; know to the Muslim scientists and philosophers mostly for his notable astronomical work Meagle Syntaxis (Grand Composition) generally called Almagest from the title of its translation in Arabic. The first know Arabic translation was made by al-hajjaj ibn Yusuf ibn Matar (fl.

between 170/786 and 218/833), and it was followed by many other translations and also commentaries. Muslim philosophers’ grandiose construction of emanationistic cosmologies (nine celestial…