Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος

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Ptolemy
Alternative names
Ελληνικά: Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος
Latina: Claudius Ptolemaeus
Description

Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer and astrologer
Date of birth/death circa  AD circa  AD
Location of birth/death Egypt Alexandria, Egypt
Authority control

Portraits[edit]

  • Medieval ideal portrait

  • Ptolemy 16century.jpg

  • Ptolemy, of the Astrology, by Luca della Robbia

Ptolemaic cosmography[edit]

  • Scenography of the Ptolemaic cosmography

  • Ptolemaicsystem-small.png

  • Ptolemy's 150 CE World Map redrawn in the 15th cent

  • Another one, redrawn 1482 (Johannes de Armsshein )

  • Ptolemy World Map from the codex of Nicolaus Germanus, 1467

  • Detail of world map of South-East Asia

  • Valued image seal.svg  Ptolemaic geocentric model by Bartolomeu Velho (1568)

  • Magna Germania; Artist: Nicolaus Germanus

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