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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek artist who was born in 100. Kunsthaus Grenchen featured Claudius Ptolemy's work in the past. Claudius Ptolemy's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with ...

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 ...

JUST forty years ago the late Prof. Peters, of Clinton, New York, and Mr. Knobel began independently, and without either of them knowing of the other's work, to investigate the Catalogue of Stars ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...