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Claudius Ptolemy (
/ˈtɒləmi/;
Greek:
Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος,
Klaudios Ptolemaios; Latin:
Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD 90 – AD
168) was a Greek-Roman
citizen of Egypt
who wrote in Greek.[1]
He was a mathematician,
astronomer,
geographer,
astrologer, and
poet of a single epigram in the Greek
Anthology.[2][3]
He lived in Egypt
under Roman
rule, and is believed to have been born in the town of Ptolemais
Hermiou in the Thebaid.
This theory, proposed by Theodore
Meliteniotes, could be correct, but it is late (ca. 1360) and
unsupported.[4]
There is no reason to suppose that he ever lived anywhere else than
Alexandria,[4]
where he died around AD 168.[5]
/ˈtɒləmi/;
Greek:
Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος,
Klaudios Ptolemaios; Latin:
Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD 90 – AD
168) was a Greek-Roman
citizen of Egypt
who wrote in Greek.[1]
He was a mathematician,
astronomer,
geographer,
astrologer, and
poet of a single epigram in the Greek
Anthology.[2][3]
He lived in Egypt
under Roman
rule, and is believed to have been born in the town of Ptolemais
Hermiou in the Thebaid.
This theory, proposed by Theodore
Meliteniotes, could be correct, but it is late (ca. 1360) and
unsupported.[4]
There is no reason to suppose that he ever lived anywhere else than
Alexandria,[4]
where he died around AD 168.[5]
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