Our revered Cleitus Ptolemy and Hephaistion.
Ptolemy published his experimental results for refraction, in contrast.
From the Senate and people of Rome, hail King Ptolemy.
Ptolemy also attempted to explain what is now
called Hering's law.
Even Cleitus, your father's favorite and Ptolemy, your friend, yes.
King Ptolemy is hereby removed from the protective custody of Rome.
From the Senate and the people of Rome, Hail King Ptolemy.
The word"Qatara" first appeared on Ptolemy's map of the Arab world.
Ptolemy was probably the first to employ systematically
listings by latitude and longitude.
He was active in Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy I(323-283 BC).
You don't need to eat every day or until you're full, Ptolemy.
Summarized the Science of Optics from the Two Books of Euclid and Ptolemy.
He intended to complete and repair Ptolemy's system, not to replace it completely.
He was brought to the university at Alexandria by Ptolemy I, King of Egypt.
The most famous Alexandrian astronomer, Ptolemy, lived from about 100 AD to 170 AD.
Ptolemy may also have offered this explanation in his Optics, but the
text is obscure.
Since cos(A + C) ≥ -1, it also gives a proof of Ptolemy's inequality.
After Alexander's death, this same Thais was married to Ptolemy, the first king of Egypt.
The Sabian Thābit ibn Qurra(826-901) also translated great works by Apollonius, Archimedes, Euclid and Ptolemy.
Scientists suggest that the mother of Cleopatra and Arsenault had a concubine of Ptolemy XII.
Pompey fled to the Egyptian capital Alexandria, where he was murdered on the orders of Ptolemy.
When Cleopatra's father, Pharaoh Ptolemy XII, died, his
will made 18-year-old Cleopatra and her 10-year-old brother joint rulers.
Alhazen argued against Ptolemy's refraction theory, and defined
the problem in terms of perceived, rather than real, enlargement.
A century later, Ptolemy produced the first known map to depict the peninsula,
referring to it as Catara.
Alhazen appears to have intended to resolve the contradictions he pointed out in Ptolemy in a later work.
The data provided by Ptolemy was meticulously checked
and revised by a highly capable group of geographers, mathematicians and astronomers.
When Cleopatra sided with the Syrians,
the Romans retaliated by helping her husband-brother Ptolemy XIII steal the throne from her.
Many believed the sun revolved around the Earth,
with ancient Greek scholar Ptolemy formalising this“geocentric” model in 150 B. C.