ClaudiusPtolemaeus (Grieks: Klaudios Ptolemaios) (87 - 150 n.Chr.) was een Grieks astronoom, geograaf, wiskundige en muziektheoreticus die leefde te Alexandrië.
Ptolemaeus had een geocentrisch beeld van het zonnestelsel.
Ptolemaeus is wellicht nog meer bekend geworden door zijn "Cosmographia" of "Geographia", een gids voor het maken van kaarten met een lijst van de geografische lengte en breedte van ca.
Ptolemaeus is an ancient lunar impact crater close to the center of the near side.
To the south-southeast Ptolemaeus is joined to the rim of Alphonsus crater by a section of rugged, irregular terrain, and these form a prominent chain with Arzachel to the south.
The somewhat dark-hued floor of Ptolemaeus is notable for several "ghost" craters, formed when lava flow covers a pre-existing crater.
ClaudiusPtolemaeus, given contemporary German styling, in a 16th century engraved book frontispiece.
ClaudiusPtolemaeus (Ptolemy): Representation, Understanding, and Mathematical Labeling of the Spherical Earth
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Ptolemaeus leefde tussen 87 en 150 na Chr.
Zijn volledige naam was ClaudiusPtolemaeus (Grieks: Klaudios Ptolemaios).
Zijn opvattingen over astronomie, bekend als het "Stelsel van Ptolemaeus", hebben meer dan 1400 jaar, tot ver na de middeleeuwen, deze wetenschap in West Europa en Arabië beheerst, en werden pas door Copernicus weerlegd.
ClaudiusPtolemaeus was een beroemd Grieks sterrenkundige, geograaf, wiskundige en muziektheoreticus die leefde in Alexandrië van 87 tot 150 na Christus.
Ptolemaeus dacht dat de aarde in het middelpunt van het heelal stond.
Ptolemaeus heeft nog veel meer wetenschappelijke boeken geschreven.
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The Ptolemaic system was a model to explain the motions of the heavens in which the earth was the centre of the universe and all other celestial bodies rotated around it, espoused by ClaudiusPtolemaeus in his work, the Almagest some time around the 2nd century, C.E., and accepted...
Musica universalis or music of the spheres is a medieval philosophical concept that regards the proportions in the movements of the celestial bodies - the sun, moon and planets - as a form of musica (the medieval Latin name for music).
Astronomy is probably the oldest of the natural sciences, dating back to antiquity, with its origins in the religious practices of pre-history: vestiges of these are still found in astrology, a discipline long interwoven with astronomy, and not completely separate from it until about 1750‑1800 in the Western...
Ptolemy's astronomical interests also appeared in a discussion of the (An inaudible music that Pythagoras thought was produced by the celestial) music of the spheres.
(Click link for more info and facts about Ptolemaeuscrater) Ptolemaeuscrater on (The 4th planet from the sun) Mars.
Ptolemy - ClaudiusPtolemaeus, Ptolomaeus, Klaudios Ptolemaios, Ptolemeus - lived in Alexandria, Egypt from approx.
His name, Claudius Ptolemy, is of course a mixture of the Greek Egyptian 'Ptolemy' and the Roman 'Claudius'.
This would indicate that he was descended from a Greek family living in Egypt and that he was a citizen of Rome, which would be as a result of a Roman emperor giving that 'reward' to one of Ptolemy's ancestors.
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Der in Alexandria lebende Gelehrte ClaudiusPtolemaeus (Ende 1.
Ptolemaeus übernahm von zahlreichen Vorgängern die Vorstellung, dass sich die Himmelskörper mittels ineinandergeschachtelter Hohlkugeln, den Sphären, um die Erde drehen und ihre Bahnen Kreise bilden.
Von Hipparch stammte auch der Katalog mit den Positionsbestimmungen von 1025 Gestirnen.
ClaudiusPtolemaeus Pelusiniensis (Ptolemy) lived in Alexandria, Egypt approximately 85-165 AD or 87-150 AD, and worked there as philosopher, astronomer (and astrologer), mathemetician and geographer.
He created a number of monumental and epochal works, above all the Mathematical Syntaxis ("Megale Syntaxas tes Astronomias", Great Syntaxas of Astronomy), which became the foundation of more than a millennium's astronomy, and is better known as Almagest (Ptolemy, ca.
The Search for the Nebulae -- I. Journal of the British Astronomical Association, Vol.
PTOLEMY (Claudius Ptolemæus) was a native of Egypt.
He lived in the neighborhood of Alexandria, and carried on his astronomical work there during the reigns of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius; his house being on the raised terrace of a temple of Serapis at Canobus, where pillars were afterwards erected to commemorate his achievements.
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