Almost 2,000 years ago a great Egyptian Greek mathematician, astrologer, geographer and astronomer made some deft calculations -- using what was to be later called Ptolemy’s Theorem -- to calculate ...
IT is somewhat strange that in the article on Ptolemy in the “Penny Cyclopædia,” he is spoken of only as a geographer. His fame is undoubtedly built upon his two great works on astronomy and geography ...
ASTROLOGY was an integral part of astronomy and science from Ptolemy onwards. Many astrologers lived before A.D. 170, when Ptolemy flourished at Alexandria ; but he conveniently dates the beginning of ...
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