Hundreds of years after the first try, we can finally read a Ptolemy text The original writing was hidden in part by a 19th-century attempt to read it.

Simplified reconstruction of Ptolemy's nine-ringed astronomical instrument called "Meteoroscope," as described in the hidden manuscript. It was a tool to calculate heights and distances, often in ...

From Ptolemy to GPS, the Brief History of Maps We now have the whole world in our hands, but how did we get here?

Ancient history of noting retrogrades Claudius Ptolemy, an ancient Greek astronomer, had one of the first written records of explaining retrograde motion in the second century A.D. The Ptolemaic ...

Researchers have deciphered a long-lost text written by the ancient astronomer Claudius Ptolemy.

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You know, make a few teensy changes. Well, that's what Claudius Ptolemy did. Bold move with the silent P, but he was a bold guy. So we're in the second century AD now.

A map created by Greek astronomer and cartographer Claudius Ptolemy, from around 140 A.D., is considered to be the oldest surviving representation of Ireland. Included among his treatise ...

In 1952, the German-French artist Jean Arp made several trips to Greece, where he encountered the ideas of Claudius Ptolemy, the Greco-Roman astronomer, mathematician and geographer best known for ...

Egyptian scholar Claudius Ptolemy —known as the “inventor of geography”—revolutionized the field by recording latitude and longitude in the second century A.D., while Gerardus Mercator ...

Throughout the centuries, the mythical Stone Tower has been a fascinating enigma for geographers, historians, and archaeologists worldwide. This location is mentioned in Claudius Ptolemy’s Geography ...

Ancient history of noting retrogrades Claudius Ptolemy, an ancient Greek astronomer, had one of the first written records of explaining retrograde motion in the second century A.D.