Roman historians and geographers, including Claudius Ptolemy (2nd century CE ... the term "Arabian Gulf" referred to the Red Sea, as evidenced by the writings of Hecataeus of Miletus, Herodotus, ...

Its invention is often credited to Claudius Ptolemy, a famous Greek astronomer ... However, some of the earliest remaining writings about levers date from the 3rd century B.C. and were written ...

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Martellus relied on Claudius Ptolemy’s projections and then updated ... Text uncovered here by Van Duzer was borrowed from the writings of St. Isidore of Seville. Lazarus Project / EMEL ...

As far back as Claudius’s reign ... the Egyptian astronomer, astrologer and geographer Ptolemy wrote: “They were peopled by the descendants of the Hebrews, and were skilled in smelting ...

While none of his original writings survive, later ancient authors reference ... The dominant geocentric model, championed by Aristotle and later formalized by Claudius Ptolemy in the Almagest, ...

Claudius Ptolemy was an Alexandrian polymath who used his skills to create an atlas around 150 CE; this gathered together all of the known geographic information of the 2nd century Greco-Roman world.

This location is mentioned in Claudius Ptolemy’s Geography as the midpoint on the Silk Road, the vast network of trade routes connecting Europe and Asia, facilitating the exchange of goods, cultures, ...

sometime between the 2nd and 4th century A.D. It is during this time that the most reliable surviving account of a device that fits the description of an astrolabe can be found in the writings of ...