jan 1, 810 - *House of Wisdom Established

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The House of Wisdom is now fully established in Baghdad for the translation of Greek and Sanskrit mathematical works into Arabic. The scholars in the House of Wisdom came from many cultures and translated the works of Egyptian, Babylonian, Greek, Indian and Chinese astronomers and mathematicians. The Mathematical Treatise of Ptolemy was one of the first to be translated from the Greek into Arabic. It was admired for its extensive content and became known in Arabic as Al-Megiste (the Great Book). The name 'Almagest' has continued to this day and it is recognized as both the great synthesis and the culmination of mathematical astronomy of the ancient Greek world. It constituted the basis of the mathematical astronomy carried out in the Islamic world

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