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“If I am your guest, I should at least be served tea and cookies,” said Ellen Jovin, a principal at Syntaxis, a New York City company that teaches businesses how to use written and spoken language more effectively.

Ptolemy's greatest work was the "Megale Syntaxis," generally known as the Almagest.

The real revival of Greek astronomy took place in the fourteenth century when scholars began to realize that new work in astronomy must be preceded by a thorough knowledge of the astronomy of the Alexandrian school as exhibited in the Syntaxis of Ptolemy.

After Archimedes, the most notable result was that given by Ptolemy, in the "Great Syntaxis."

After an eight-year study of the Syntaxis, Ptolemy's 13-volume collection of celestial observations, Robert R. Newton of the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University has concluded that Ptolemy faked his figures.