Researchers have deciphered an ancient manuscript that they think Claudius Ptolemy ... of Seville's "Etymologiae" — on top of Ptolemy's writing. Someone also "cleaned" the paper in an attempt ...

Claudius Ptolemy. After years of painstaking work, the team, from the Sorbonne and New York Universities, have deciphered the long-lost message detailing the construction and uses of an ancient ...

A representation of Claudius Ptolemy (Illustrative ... tried to "clean" the parchment to make Ptolmey's original writing clearer by applying a reagent to several pages. This not only didn ...

The material they discovered appears to be a copy of Claudius Ptolemy’s treatise on a scientific ... “It’s a kind of technical writing. It’s the first book of its kind on scientific ...

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 ...

Claudius Ptolemy (150 AD) map drawn from Ptolemy's coordinates for a 1482 edition of his Geographia (The Ulm Edition, Leinhard Holle) Lands beyond the bounds of the known world tantalized the ...

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 in his treatise ...

The great cartographers, such as Claudius Ptolemy, Martin Waldseemüller, Muhammad al-Idrisi, Abraham Ortelius, and Gerardus Mercator, have left an enduring legacy in history. Their ability to ...

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, which ...