Ptolemy

How To Use Ptolemy In A Sentence

• Egyptian archaeologists who found the temple say it was built by Queen Berenike II, wife of Greek King Ptolemy III, who ruled Egypt from 246 to 221 B.C.
• In the decisive battle of Ipsus in 301 B.C. the overshadowing power of Antigonus was broken and the control of southwestern Asia was divided between Seleucus and Ptolemy. The Makers and Teachers of Judaism
• Ptolemy was free, however, to lay his prime meridian, the zero-degree longitude line, wherever he liked.
• We show above that Hipparchus' and Ptolemy 's arguments are based on an implicit false premise - that one would feel the motion.
• the cosmography of Ptolemy
• Ptolemy Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene were putting a jigsaw puzzle together, a scene of flowers, grass, and butterflies painted on thin wood that some master craftsman with a fretsaw had cut into small, irregular pieces. Antony and Cleopatra
• The eminence of these works, in particular the Almagest, had been evident already to Ptolemy's contemporaries. this caused an almost total obliteration of the prehistory of the Ptolemaic astronomy.
• Yet the last and most popular of these etymologies is refuted by Ptolemy, (Arabia, p. 2, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• From it, Ptolemy appears to have passed to the Tacazze, which he calls the Nile, and to have penetrated into A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson
• Can you envisage how concerned you'd become if your satellite TV company started planning its coverage using a geocentric system of astronomy based on the use of Ptolemy's epicycles?