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Headword:
Ptolemaios
Adler number: pi,3033
Translated headword: Ptolemaios, Ptolemaeus, Ptolemy
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [
Ptolemy] who was called Claudius, a philosopher of Alexandria. He lived at the time of the emperor Marcus [Aurelius].[1] This man wrote 3 books of
Mechanics, 2 books
Concerning the appearances and indications of the fixed stars,
Simplification of the surface of a sphere,
Handy Tables, the
Great Astronomy or
Systematic Treatise,[2] and other works.
Ptolemaios, ho Klaudios chrêmatisas, Alexandreus, philosophos, gegonôs epi tôn chronôn Markou tou basileôs. houtos egrapse Mêchanika biblia g#, Peri phaseôn kai episêmasiôn asterôn aplanôn biblia b#, Haplôsin epiphaneias sphairas, Kanona procheiron, ton Megan astronomon êtoi Suntaxin: kai alla.
Notes:
Ptolemy's works on astronomy and geography were not superseded until the 15th century. See OCD4 s.v.
Ptolemy(4); article by J. J. O'Connor and E. F. Robertson at web address 1 (MacTutor History of Mathematics).
[1] Reigned 161-180 BCE; see generally
mu 214,
mu 215.
[2] Best known by its Arabic title, the
Almagest, derived from the Greek
megi/sth [su/ntacis].
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; chronology; geography; mathematics; philosophy; science and technology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 2 January 2003@01:29:58.
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