Ptolemy
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title:
Ptolemy
text:
Claudius Ptolemy was an Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine, Islamic, and Western European science. The first was his astronomical treatise now known as the Almagest, originally entitled Mathematical Treatise. The second is the Geography, which is a thorough discussion on maps and the geographic knowledge of the Greco-Roman world. The third is the astrologi
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2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer and geographer (c. 100 – c. 170 AD)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy
date created:
2001-09-28T17:05:35Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T19:57:52Z
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