Assertion: precession | /r/CapableOf | account until 20th century
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text: The lunar apsidal precession was not accounted for in Claudius Ptolemy's Almagest, and as a group these precessions, the result of a plethora of phenomena, remained difficult to account for until the 20th century when the last unidentified part of Mercury's precession was precisely explained in Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.[citation needed]