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Claudius Ptolemaeus (Greek: Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαίος Klaúdios Ptolemaîos; after AD 83–c.168), known in English as Ptolemy (pronounced /ˈtɔləmi/), was an ancient mathematician, astronomer, geographer and astrologer. He lived in Roman Egypt, and was probably born there in a town in the Thebaid called Ptolemais Hermiou; he died in Alexandria around 168 AD.
Ptolemy was the author of several scientific treatises, three of which would be of continuing importance to later Islamic and European science. The...
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165 C.E.
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