Moves these books can learn whose quotation comes from somebody else. The citation on each one names who actually said it.
Ptolemy’s Almagest set the earth at the center and saved the appearances with epicycles — the reigning astronomy from the 2nd century until Copernicus.
Ptolemy, Almagest (2nd cent. AD).
In the gameCircles upon circles. Wrong about the center; right for a thousand years of predictions.
Learned byAlmagest (Lv 1)
Hipparchus of Nicaea computed the first known table of chords — the birth of trigonometry, built to predict the heavens.
On Hipparchus (c. 190–120 BC), preserved through Ptolemy’s Almagest.
In the gameThe first trigonometric table in history — Hipparchus’ own craft.
Learned byAlmagest (Lv 1)
“He gave him no answer, not even one word, so that the governor marveled greatly.”
Matthew 27:14 (WEB); cf. Isaiah 53:7.
In the gameSay nothing. Convinces no one — but the next argument lands harder. Raises the user’s Contend, after the pattern of Christ’s silence before his accusers.
Learned byAlmagest (Lv 8)
Claudius Ptolemy against everyone else in the game.
