The Almagest
a. is the book that first described the heliocentric solar system.
b. is a collection of the science and mathematics of the Greeks.
c. caused the author to be sentenced to house arrest.
d. is a book of astrological myths and predictions produced by the Arabs.
e. first described the Copernican theory.
b
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