This Ptolemaic system presented tables of information allowing convenient predictions of planetary locations. Ptolemy also catalogued 48 constellations, the names of which are still in use at present.

L ibya recovered an ancient statue from the Ptolemaic era that had been displayed in the Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio, after being smuggled out of the country during World War II. An official ...

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The old Ptolemaic system in which the planets orbit the Earth in cycles and epicyles was actually a valid approach. We say that the orbits are elliptical, but an ellipse is an epicycle; ...

In the ‘Ptolemaic system’, the planets, the sun and the moon each occupied a separate rotating sphere around the Earth. In Europe and many parts of Asia, this was assumed correct for 1,400 years.

Ptolemaic Watch Brings A Tiny Solar System To Your Wrist By Brittany Roston July 22, 2014 11:44 pm EST There's a watch to match every style, even if your style skews towards being a bit quaint and ...

Archaeologists uncovered ancient military fortifications from Ptolemaic and Roman eras in Egypt's Tell Abu Sefeh, revealing strategic defenses that protected Egypt's eastern frontier.

Such was the Ptolemaic system, which had dominated Western views for more than a millennium. And yet, the Bible itself reflects a radically different view of the cosmos, ...

Varying Opinions on the Orthodox Creeds and System of Theology.; A LAWYER GIVES HIS VIEWS He Says that the Creeds Are Based Largely on the Ptolemaic Conception of the Universe.

An essential component of the then standard Ptolemaic geocentric model of the solar system, which dominated astronomy for 15 centuries, mandated that the planets were fixed to a series of ...