Researchers have deciphered an ancient manuscript that they think Claudius Ptolemy, an Egyptian mathematician and astronomer of Greek descent, penned during the first century A.D. Written in Greek ...

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 ...

The material they discovered appears to be a copy of Claudius Ptolemy’s treatise on a scientific instrument called the meteoroscope. Finding Ptolemy. Ptolemy, who was born in 100 CE, ...

The first great attempt to make mapping realistic came in the second century A.D. with Claudius Ptolemy. He was an astronomer and astrologer obsessed with making accurate horoscopes, ...

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

A famous Greek astronomer and cartographer, Ptolemy's map of Ireland is incredibly accurate even though it was penned way back in 140AD. A map created by Greek astronomer and cartographer Claudius ...

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 ...

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’s ...

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 ...