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Summary Of: Ptolemy
Ptolemy was the author of several scientific treatises... some scholars have concluded that Ptolemy was a Greek... Ptolemy is also known to have used... scholars and historians alike consider it unlikely that Ptolemy was related to the royal family... it implies Ptolemy was a Roman citizen... It would have suited custom if the first Ptolemy who became a citizen... Ptolemy presented his astronomical models in convenient tables... Ptolemy presented a useful tool for astronomical calculations in his... Ptolemy put all this information into a grand scheme... Ptolemy also devised and provided instructions on how to create maps both of the whole inhabited... Ptolemy was well aware that he knew about only a quarter of the globe... One reason is that Ptolemy estimated the size of the Earth as too small... since Ptolemy switched from the former scale to the latter... Because Ptolemy derived many of his key latitudes from crude longest day values... Ptolemy was concerned to defend astrology by defining its limits... so Ptolemy saw astrology as something to be used in life but in no way relied on... Ptolemy also wrote an influential work... Ptolemy argued for basing musical intervals on mathematical ratios... Ptolemy wrote about how musical notes could be translated into mathematical equations and vice versa in... 2 whereas Ptolemy merely believed that it should just generally involve... Extracts of Ptolemy on the country of the Seres... Encyclodia Page On: Ptolemy
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