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Ptolemy’s Theorem and the Almagest: we just found the best visual proof in 2000 years
The Almagest is a 2nd century astronomical treatise by Claudius Ptolemy that systematically presents the geocentric model of the universe: that is, that the Earth is at the centre of life, the ...
In a sunlit gallery of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Italy, astronomer Brad Schaefer came face to face with an ancient statue known as the Farnese Atlas. For centuries, the 7-foot marble figure ...
Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived in the Egyptian city of Alexandria while under the rule of the Roman Empire. Much of medieval astronomy and geography ...
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