Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived in the Egyptian city of Alexandria while under the rule of the Roman Empire. Much of medieval astronomy and ...

The original map of the world, as Claudius Ptolemy (the Latin version being ... named the fort is the town of ‘Amakatis’. He then quotes a verse: “Amba-Kapi pai larai, Kalpi bahin chhurawan ...

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 ...