Modern Editions
The Almagest was edited by J. L. Heiberg in Claudii Ptolemaei opera quae exstant omnia, vols. 1.1 and 1.2 (1898, 1903).
Two translations of the Almagest into English have been published . The first, by R. Catesby Taliaferro of St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, was included in volume 16 of the Great Books of the Western World; the second, by G. J. Toomer, Ptolemy's Almagest in 1984, with a second edition in 1998.
An older French translation (facing the Greek text), published in two volumes in 1813 and 1816 by Nicholas Halma, is available online.
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