Fantastic. The Earth is a point but at the centre of heaven’s spheres — the humility and grandiosity of that side by side.
Ptolemy is concise and persuasive. In fact he starts by telling us how a great research paper sets out. I don’t blame him for his faults, it would be devilishly hard to understand the Earth is rotating without knowing how far the stars are away. Yes he goes off on epicycles, but the level of numinous mystery at the time, it is miraculous the progress he made.