Ptolemy

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Claudius Ptolemy (about 100–170 CE) lived in Alexandria, Egypt, part of the Roman Empire. A mathematician, geographer and astrologer, his famous book on astronomy codified the ancient view of the universe, with the sun and observable planets orbiting around the earth.

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Books by Ptolemy

The Book of Astronomy in Antiquity (Concise Edition)

By Ptolemy

Foreword by Marika Taylor / Introduction by Christián Carman

Ptolemy's work in ancient times laid the foundations for our modern understanding of the universe. Now in a digestible, pocket format for the modern reader.

Ptolemy’s great astronomical work, which we know as The Almagest, brought together the ideas of Greek Antiquity, based ...

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