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Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemy (/ˈtɒləmi/; Ancient Greek: Πτολεμαῖος, Ptolemaios; Latin: Claudius Ptolemaeus; c. 100 – 160s/170s AD), better known mononymously as Ptolemy, was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine, Islamic, and…

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Known for
Ptolemaic universe · Ptolemy's world map · Ptolemy's intense diatonic scale · Ptolemy's table of chords · Ptolemy's inequality
Born
c. AD 100 Unknown
Citizenship
possibly Roman
Died
160s/170s Alexandria, Egypt, Roman Empire
Fields
Astronomy · geography · astrology · optics

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related to Naming and nationality · 27
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related to Tetrabiblos · 22
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related to Geography · 21
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related to Optics · 20
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related to Biography · 19
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related to Handy Tables · 16
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related to Philosophy · 15
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related to Mathēmatikē Syntaxis · 10
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Ptolemy → Equant, Evection, Ptolemaic universe, Ptolemy's inequality, Ptolemy's intense diatonic scale, Ptolemy's table of chords, Ptolemy's theorem, Ptolemy's world map, Quadrant

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