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  "ar": "المجسطي",
  "en": "The Almagest"
 },
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  "ar": "كتاب بطليموس في الهيئة، ذكره المسعودي فيمن تقدم من أهل علم الهيئة، وكتاب الجغرافيا لبطليموس أيضاً وفيه أربعة آلاف مدينة ومائتا مدينة {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 519}.",
  "en": "Ptolemy's great work on the heavens, cited by al-Mas'udi alongside the Geography and its 4,200 cities {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 519}."
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  ],
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   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "مروج الذهب للمسعودي (ط الدار الإفريقية/الشركة العالمية) ج1 ص 519",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-muruj-dhahab-batch-21"
  },
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   "review": "draft",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "«المجسطي» كتاب [[person/batlamus|بطليموس]] في الهيئة. ذكره المسعودي فيمن تقدم من أهل علم الهيئة. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 519}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "كتاب الجغرافيا",
     "markdown": "يذكر المسعودي أيضاً كتاب «الجغرافيا» لبطليموس، وفيه أربعة آلاف مدينة ومائتا مدينة. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 519}"
    }
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    "lang": "ar",
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   }
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "\"Al-Majisti\" (The Almagest), a book on astronomy by [[person/batlamus|Ptolemy]]. Al-Mas'udi mentions it among the earlier authorities in the science of the heavenly configurations. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 519}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The book of Geography",
     "markdown": "Al-Mas'udi also mentions the \"Geography\" of Ptolemy, which he says lists four thousand and two hundred cities. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 519}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "work/al-majisti",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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