The earliest record to give quantitative information on the brightness of the stars is in Books VII and VIII of the Almagest by Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy) (c. AD 100 - c. AD 170).
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The Measurement of Starlight
Two Centuries of Astronomical Photometry
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by J. B. Hearnshaw
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"The earliest record to give quantitative information on the brightness of the stars is in Books VII and VIII of the Almagest by Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy) (c. AD 100 - c. AD 170)."
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