Avicenna's Addendum to His Recension of Ptolemy's 'Almagest'

Avicenna's Addendum to His Recension of Ptolemy's 'Almagest'

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The Islamic astronomical tradition greatly benefited from the many works produced in different ancient cultures, as well as the new empirical and theoretical approaches that led to advancements in various aspects of astronomy. Nevertheless, a significant portion of the history of this tradition, especially its formative period, was lost or remains undiscovered. Avicenna's addendum to his recension of Ptolemy's Almagest, which he incorporated into his main philosophical summa, Kitab al-Shifa , helps recover parts of this otherwise lost history. In the addendum, Avicenna took a historiographical...