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In my article “The Missions of Astronomy” [NYR, October 22], the concluding quotation from Claudius Ptolemy comes not from the Almagest but from The Greek Anthology, a collection of epigrams from late antiquity, which does not give a source for the quotation in the work of Ptolemy.
Steven Weinberg
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