Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived in the Egyptian city of Alexandria while under the rule of the Roman Empire. Much of medieval astronomy and ...

Cartography is cool. Where would we be without it as a species? The post 30 Interesting Facts About The World Represented In ...

The great cartographers, such as Claudius Ptolemy, Martin Waldseemüller, Muhammad al-Idrisi, Abraham Ortelius, and Gerardus Mercator, have left an enduring legacy in history. Their ability to ...

Medieval scholars adopted Claudius Ptolemy’s mathematical treatment of planets circling the Earth, orbiting along circles modified by epicycles. But Ptolemy’s system was meant to be a method ...

including works by Claudius Ptolemy, the indisputable authority in ancient astrology, and Albumasar, probably the most eminent representative of Muslim astrology. There was also a focus on the duty to ...

Disfigured, awkward and clumsy, Claudius (10 BC – 54 AD / Reigned 41 – 54 AD) was the black sheep of his family and an unlikely emperor. Once in place, he was fairly successful, but his poor ...

One was the 1522 edition of the Geography of Claudius Ptolemy, the other a collection of historical narratives whose authors included Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus. It’s impossible to know ...

helped overthrow more than a thousand years of Aristotelian thinking (reinforced by Greek astronomer Claudius Ptolemy) which said that objects only moved if an external force drove that motion.

Organize a topical book or panel discussion. Topics to consider include: historical astronomers—such as Nicolaus Copernicus, Claudius Ptolemy, and Johannes Kepler—and their discoveries ...

The Roman geographer Ptolemy places them in the Southern uplands ... This was the excuse used by the Roman Emperor Claudius to conquer southern Britain in 43 AD. The Catuvellauni were one of ...

The limestone sphinx with its "smiley face and two dimples" is thought to represent Roman Emperor Claudius. It is much smaller than the famous Sphinx in the Pyramids of Giza, which is 20m (66ft ...

A more accurate first attempt at a map was by Claudius Ptolemy. He located towns with the help of documents and by speaking with travelers. He put his findings on paper on a system of longitude ...