Ptolemy

Trying to describe how the five planets in the night sky followed seemingly irregular paths, Ptolemy hit upon an idea he called epicycles.

this article has simply introduced a number of nature of regular polygon circumscribed circle by means of the Ptolemy's theorems.

He had been the first to turn a telescope to the sky, and he had seen there evidence enough to overthrow Aristotle and Ptolemy together.

Cleopatra VII was the last queen of the Ptolemaic dynasty, ruling as co-regent with her son, Ptolemy XV.

Demetrius did so to all the enemy's dead, and sent the prisoners back to Ptolemy with money and presents.

She had been exiled by her brother Ptolemy the Thirteenth and was fighting to take back power.

Many believed the sun revolved around the Earth, with ancient Greek scholar Ptolemy formalizing this "geocentric" model in 150.

He wanted the Church to stay open, with respect to a system of Ptolemy, and the system of Copernicus, Heliocentrism and geocentrism.

As great an indicator as the Ingress charts are, Ptolemy also mentions another predictive chart to determine the fates of the coming year.

One was a priest of the goddess Isis; the other a sphinx whose face is said to represent Cleopatra 's father, King Ptolemy XII.

Who was he? A lowlife from the slums of Alexandria who hangs out with the likes of Ptolemy?

Pompey flees to Egypt, hoping to enlist the support of the young Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII and his sister Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor).

After his death, Cleopatra ruled with her other brother Ptolemy the Fourteenth.

Ptolemy is a family to say that they are disfunctional is an understatement .

In 200 AD there came a Roman astronomer Ptolemy, who had moved away from his home to live and study in Egypt.

Ptolemy's model of the cosmos was adopted by the Catholic Church and held as official doctrine for fourteen hundred years.

Ptolemy added epicycles to the circular orbits of the heavenly bodies in order that his model might accurately describe their motion.

She married her younger brother, Ptolemy, and she became the mistress of the Roman general Julius Caesar.

In other words, we need to drop Ptolemy and come up with a theory of eurozone relativity.

Probably the most famous was by Ptolemy who wrote that the aspects were made up of right angles and whole signs.

But there is one key detail that Brown finds extremely revealing--the Ptolemy family had no history of suicide.

So if we take an example -- Ptolemy had dozens of data points to support his theory that the planets would rotate around the Earth.

King Ptolemy prohibited Hegesias from lecturing, lest he depopulate the country.

In the 3rd century BC Ptolemy stole every available scroll from passing travellers and ships to stock his great library in Alexandria.

Chavouet, a graphic artist living in Paris, received the Ptolemy Prize at the 2009 International Festival of Geography for Tokyo on Foot.

In this domain Ptolemy created a model of the solar system in 150 AD using circles and epicenters.

Before the invention of printing, maps like Ptolemy's were rare and expensive because they had to be hand drawn.

Although it is not uncommon for people to say Copernicus proved Ptolemy wrong, that is not true.

When, 18 years later, Lysimachus died, she married her half-brother, Ptolemy Keraunus.

The Ptolemies are easier to keep straight because they tended to all be named Ptolemy.

We show above that Hipparchus' and Ptolemy 's arguments are based on an implicit false premise - that one would feel the motion.

Comparison between the Philosophical Foundations of the Astronomic Thoughts of Zhang Heng and Ptolemy

Demonstration of Complex Number and Its Application about Ptolemy Theorem

since Ptolemy had calculated wrongly the size of the Atlantic