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noun - Alexandrian astronomer (of the 2nd century) who proposed a geocentric system of astronomy that was undisputed until the late Renaissance
noun - an ancient dynasty of Macedonian kings who ruled Egypt from 323 BC to 30 BC
PTOLEMY - Claudius Ptolemy (; Greek: , Klaúdios Ptolemaîos [kláwdios ptolmos]; Latin: Claudius Ptolemaeus; c. AD 100 c. 170) was a Greco-Roman mathematici...
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| A little birdie "ptold" me: after Alexander the Great's death, this general took control of Egypt |
| 47 of the 48 constellations he listed in his "Almagest" around 150 B.C. are still recognized |
| In the "Almagest", this 2nd century Greek astronomer suggested the Earth was the center of the universe |
| This Alexandrian added latitude & longitude lines to his maps around 151 A.D. |
| A general in Alexander's army, he became king of Egypt in 305 B.C. |
| This ancient Alexandrian's "Geography" was used by Renaissance mapmakers |
| From 323 to 30 B.C., all 15 of Egypt's Macedonian kings shared this name |
| This general of Alexander's governed Egypt & Libya & began the dynasty that included Cleopatra |
| Once bodyguard to Alexander the Great, he founded an Egyptian dynasty that lasted 300 years, until Cleopatra |
| This Alexandrian astronomer discusses eclipses in book VI of his 2nd century work "Almagest" |
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| The name of all the Macedonian rulers of Egypt, a dynasty founded by Ptolemy, the close friend and general of Alexander the Great, who took charge of Egypt after the latter's death and declared himself king (Ptolemy I) in 304 BC. The dynasty ended with the death of Cleopatra in 30 BC. |
| (2nd century) Greek astronomer and geographer. His teachings had enormous influence on medieval thought, the geocentric view of the cosmos being adopted as Christian doctrine until the late Renaissance. Ptolemy's Geography, giving lists of places with their longitudes and latitudes, was also a standard work for centuries, despite its inaccuracies. |
| an ancient dynasty of Macedonian kings who ruled Egypt from 323 BC to 30 BC founded by Ptolemy I and ended with Cleopatra |
| Alexandrian astronomer who proposed a geocentric system of astronomy that was undisputed until Copernicus (2nd century AD) |
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| Claudius Ptolemy (; Greek: , Klaúdios Ptolemaîos [kláwdios ptolmos]; Latin: Claudius Ptolemaeus; c. AD 100 c. 170) was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology. He lived in the city of Alexandria in the Roman province of Egypt, wrote in Koine Greek, and held Roman citizenship. The 14th-century astronomer Theodore Meliteniotes gave his birthplace as the prominent Greek city Ptolemais Hermiou (Greek: ) in the Thebaid (Greek: []). This attestation is quite late, however, and, according to Gerald Toomer, the translator of his Almagest into English, there is no reason to suppose he ever lived anywhere other than Alexandria. He died there around AD 168.Ptolemy wrote several scientific treatises, three of which were of importance to later Byzantine, Islamic and European science. The first is the astronomical treatise now known as the Almagest, although it was originally entitled the Mathematical Treatise ( , Math |