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(the “greatest”?)
(“hold your horses”)
(“i’m afraid you were mistaken…”)
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/ˈtɒləmi/
Greek: Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος, Klaúdios Ptolemaîos [kláwdios ptolɛmɛ́ːos]
Latin: Claudius Ptolemaeus;
c. AD 100 – c. 170)
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*”claudius ptolemy” was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the ‘Greek Anthology’*
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(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: Πτολεμαΐς ‘Ερμείου ) in the ‘Thebaid’ (Greek: Θηβαΐδα [Θηβαΐς]))
(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 (Μαθηματικὴ Σύνταξις, Mathēmatikē Syntaxis) and then known as the Great Treatise (Ἡ Μεγάλη Σύνταξις, Hē Megálē Syntaxis))
(the second is the Geography, which is a thorough discussion of the geographic knowledge of the Greco-Roman world)
(the third is the astrological treatise in which he attempted to adapt horoscopic astrology to the ‘aristotelian’ natural philosophy of his day)
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(this is sometimes known as the apotelesmatika (Ἀποτελεσματικά) but more commonly known as the Tetrabiblos from the Greek (Τετράβιβλος) meaning “Four Books” or by the latin ‘quadripartitum’)
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*👨🔬🕵️♀️🙇♀️*SKETCHES*🙇♂️👩🔬🕵️♂️*
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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