This Press Release includes an image that has been added FORT MYERS, FL / ACCESS Newswire / March 13, 2025 / Ptolemy, a ...

That Ptolemy was an arm-chair geographer no one denies, but in geography, at least, it should be remembered that the looker-on often sees most of the game. Basing his system on that of his ...

and we use a similar system today. In Ptolemy’s great 13 volume work, The Syntaxis, (otherwise known as The Almagest), Ptolemy made observations about the planets that are surprising.

An Egyptian astronomer called Ptolemy (AD100-168) described one of the earliest ideas for how the Solar System is structured. Ptolemy’s model and many earlier ideas of the Solar System had the ...

Now researchers have managed to recover the text written by Ptolemy on a parchment that suffered such a previous recovery attempt. Outermost six rings of the meteoroscope, not to scale.