Hypatia's success in establishing the correct day of the vernal equinox could undermine the Alexandrian Church's authority in the timing of Easter, as it used equinoctial computations based on Ptolemy's Syntaxis ( Almagest ).
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The cosmology of the " Syntaxis " includes five main points, each of which is the subject of a chapter in Book I . What follows is a close paraphrase of Ptolemy's own words from Toomer's translation.
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The mountains form part of the Cape Syntaxis, a complex portion of the Cape Fold Belt where the north-south trending ranges meet in the east-west trending ranges in a complex series of folds, thrusts and fault-lines.
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Ginzburg launched the literary journal Syntaxis in 1959, and it became one of the first " samizdat, " or self-published, journals that formed the basis of dissident movement opposing the repressive Communist authorities in the years to come.
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He became master of the grammar school at Brentwood, Essex, where he appears to have died at an advanced age in 1609 . His only work is " Syntaxis et Prosodia, versiculis composit?", Cambridge, 1590, 8vo.
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The papers included manuscripts and copies from Ginzburg's acclaimed literary journal Syntaxis _ one of the first " samizdat, " or self-published, journals which formed the basis for dissident movements for the next three decades of Soviet history.
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In many cases names and terminology were changed; a prime example of this is the title of Ptolemy's " Almagest ", which is an Arabic modification of the original name of the work : " Megale Syntaxis ".
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By 130 AD, Ptolemy, influenced by Hipparchus and the Babylonians, was using a symbol for zero ( a small circle with a long overbar ) in his work on mathematical astronomy called the " Syntaxis Mathematica ", also known as the " Almagest ".
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Depending on the historian's viewpoint, the acme or corruption of physical Greek astronomy is seen with Ptolemy of Alexandria, who wrote the classic comprehensive presentation of geocentric astronomy, the " Megale Syntaxis " ( Great Synthesis ), better known by its Arabic title " Almagest ", which had a lasting effect on astronomy up to the Renaissance.
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Ptolemy has even ( since Brahe, 1598 ) been accused by astronomers of fraud for stating ( " Syntaxis ", book 7, chapter 4 ) that he observed all 1025 stars : for almost every star he used Hipparchus's data and precessed it to his own epoch centuries later by adding 2?0'to the longitude, using an erroneously small precession constant of 1?per century.
