Dr. Richard Lieu, a physics professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama ...

Now researchers have managed to recover the text written by Ptolemy on a parchment that suffered such a previous recovery attempt. Outermost six rings of the meteoroscope, not to scale.

Seconds after the Big Bang, the Universe exhibited an astonishing simplicity ... critiques inflation theory as a modern ...

In studying the history of the universe itself, there is always a chance that we have ... We would need to find an entirely new cosmological model, one that works as well as our current one but that ...

Cosmic microwave background data support cosmology’s standard model but retain a mystery about the universe’s expansion rate.

Ptolemy’s model and many earlier ideas of the Solar System had the Earth at the centre of it. As observations of the motions of the planets became more detailed, the descriptions of the Solar ...

AT the meeting on Monday of the Royal Geographical Society, Dr. H. Schlichter read a paper on “Ptolemy's Geography of Eastern Equatorial Africa.” Ptolemy, as a geographer, has received very ...

Ptolemy was not the first classical author to describe Central Europe, and the territory of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia in particular. The importance of his work is rather concerned with a list of ...