According to James Hardiman’s “History of Galway,” Ptolemy handed down names of several rivers, cities, and tribes then situated on the west coast of Ireland. However, it is often noted that ...

It mentions the lunar model in which the Muslim astronomer used epicycles to correct Ptolemy's exaggerated ... is of significant implications to the history of science in the Middle Ages and ...

It was not until 1543, and Copernicus's heliocentric theory of the world, that the Ptolemaic model ... and why did Ptolemy's system survive for so long?With:Liba TaubProfessor of History and ...

The first great attempt to make mapping realistic came in the second century A.D. with Claudius Ptolemy. He was an astronomer and astrologer obsessed with making accurate horoscopes, which ...

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.

Ptolemy's Meteoroscope was a tool to calculate ... A summary of the findings so far was published in the Archive of History of Exact Sciences on March 9, 2023.

The ancient Greek astronomer and geographer Ptolemy of Alexandria drew a map of the world in the 2nd century, which shows the stone fort as one of only five Irish sites to be noted. The Grianan ...

For their latest partnership, the luxury travel purveyor Rimowa has tapped British abstract artist Ptolemy Mann. She is adept at working with intricate, vivid textiles and now adds her colorful ...

Researchers have deciphered an ancient manuscript that they think Claudius Ptolemy, an Egyptian mathematician ... March 9 in the journal Archive for History of Exact Sciences.

Peters, of Clinton, New York, and Mr. Knobel began independently, and without either of them knowing of the other's work, to investigate the Catalogue of Stars in Ptolemy's Almagest. They soon ...