An international conference on the origins of galaxies pays tribute to the pioneering scientific cooperation between Muslims, ...

As May commences, Jupiter, resembling a luminous golden star within the constellation Taurus, shines high above the western ...

For example, Theodore Metochites (1270-1332 CE) studied Ptolemy’s Almagest, a 2nd-century Greek text on astronomy and mathematics. Influenced by Ptolemy’s ideas, Metochites believed that the ...

She is known to have edited and improved Ptolemy's Almagest, a foundational astronomical text that described the geocentric model of the universe and included methods for calculating celestial motions ...

Nor was he alone in taking such a route: works such as Ptolemy’s Almagest, fundamental for the medieval study of the heavens, seemed to inhabitants of Christian western Europe easier to understand ...

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Unlike the 30 or so dynasties that preceded it, the Greco-Macedonian regime has no ordinal number, but is called Ptolemaic after its founder, Ptolemy I, and the Ptolemies who descended from him ...

Skipping forward a few centuries takes us to 323 B .C . and Alexandria, Egypt. Ptolemy I Soter sought to establish a center of learning in the city after Alexander the Great’s death.

In the fifth century BCE, Greek historian Herodotus called it “Sinus Persicus,” and Roman geographer Ptolemy’s maps recorded it as “Persicus Sinus.” During the Islamic Golden Age, influential Arab ...

From ancient Egyptian geographer Ptolemy to Nasa, here's how we see the Earth. Almost six hours into the flight, Schmitt laughed. "The problem with looking at the Earth, particularly Antarctica ...

Ptolemy's general account of the Nile lakes is sufficiently accurate to show that he wrote from positive information. Otherwise, as Signer De Filippi remarks, he must have been gifted with ...