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Geography of Claudius Ptolemy
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Claudius Ptolemy
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: Cosimo Classics

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Geography of Claudius Ptolemy, originally titled Geographia and written in the second century, is a depiction of the geography of the Roman Empire at the time.
Ptolemy's Geography
Language: en
Pages: 217
Authors: Ptolemy
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-16 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Ptolemy's Geography is the only book on cartography to have survived from the classical period and one of the most influential scientific works of all time. Wri
The Crime of Claudius Ptolemy
Language: en
Pages: 440
Authors: Robert R. Newton
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 1977 - Publisher:

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In Newton's view, Ptolemy was "the most successful fraud in the history of science". Newton shows that Ptolemy predominantly obtained the astronomical results d
Ancient Perspectives
Language: en
Pages: 284
Authors: Richard J. A. Talbert
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-14 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Ancient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time—Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE—
Ptolemy's Almagest
Language: en
Pages: 712
Authors: Ptolemy
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-11-08 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Ptolemy's Almagest is one of the most influential scientific works in history. A masterpiece of technical exposition, it was the basic textbook of astronomy for