Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος

Ptolemy  (–170)
	Alternative names	Claudius Ptolemaeus; Claudius Ptolemeus; Claudius Ptolemy; Klaudios Ptolemaios
	Description	Roman mathematician, geographer, astronomer, astrologer, music theorist and philosopher
	Date of birth/death	circa 100 / 87 AD date QS:P,+0087-00-00T00:00:00Z/9	circa 170
	Location of birth/death	Ptolemais Hermiou	Canopus
	Authority control	: Q34943 VIAF: 54152998 ISNI: 0000 0001 2280 0429 ULAN: 500330559 LCCN: n50032768 NLA: 35435417 Open Library: OL45265A GND: 118641786 SELIBR: 196576 SUDOC: 027084396 BNF: 11920750r NDL: 00453423 BIBSYS: 90199407 HDS: 048292 NKC: ola2002159448 SBN: LO1V346952 BNE: XX1136821 CiNii: DA00259895 NLP: A11852409 J9U: 987007266744205171 Koninklijke: 068972148 WorldCat

creator QS:P170,Q34943

Portraits

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  Medieval ideal portrait

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  Ptolemy, of the Astrology, by Luca della Robbia

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Ptolemaic cosmography

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  Scenography of the Ptolemaic cosmography

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    Ptolemaic geocentric model by Bartolomeu Velho (1568)

Ptolemaic geography

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

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  Another one, redrawn 1482 (Johannes de Armsshein )

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  Ptolemy World Map from the codex of Nicolaus Germanus, 1467

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  Detail of world map of South-East Asia

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  Magna Germania; Artist: Nicolaus Germanus