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Noun Named Entity
Categories: Claudii, 2nd-century astronomers, Egyptian astronomers, Ancient Greek geographers, 170 deaths
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Ptolemy  Claudius Ptolemaeus  Ptolemy's optics  2nd cent. -- Translations into Welsh Ptolemy  Analemma
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Alexandrian astronomer (of the 2nd century) who proposed a geocentric system of astronomy that was undisputed until the late Renaissance WordNet 3.0
English:
music theorist
astronomer
scholar
astrologer
geographer
mathematician
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Alexandrian astronomer (of the 2nd century) who proposed a geocentric system of astronomy that was undisputed until the late Renaissance WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Claudius Ptolemy Wikipedia
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer Wikidata
IS A
astronomer
homo
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
Roman Empire
DERIVATION
Ptolemaic
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
Dictionary of African Biography
Obalky knih.cz
EMPLOYER
Alexandria
Library of Alexandria
FIELD OF WORK
astrology
astronomy
geography
mathematics
mechanics
+2 relations
GENS
Claudia gens
GIVEN NAME
Ptolemy
HAS WORKS IN THE COLLECTION
National Library of Wales
INFLUENCED BY
Aristotle
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
Ancient Greek
NOTABLE WORK
Almagest
Geography
OCCUPATION
astronomer
writer
geographer
mathematician
philosopher
+2 relations
PLACE OF BIRTH
Ptolemais Hermiou
PLACE OF DEATH
Alexandria
Canopus
PRESENT IN WORK
Divine Comedy
RESIDENCE
Alexandria
SEX OR GENDER
male
TIME PERIOD
Roman Empire
WRITING LANGUAGE
Ancient Greek
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Ptolemy, Claudius Ptolemaeus
Wikipedia
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Ptolemy
Wikidata
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Ptolemy
Wikipedia Redirections
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Analemma (Ptolemy), Astronomer Ptolemy, Claudius Ptolemaeus, Claudius Ptolemaios, Claudius Ptolemaus, Claudius Ptolemy, Claudius Ptolemy Of Alexandria, Claudius Ptolemäus, Claudius Ptolemæus, Klaudios Ptolemaios, Klaudius Ptolemaeus, Klaudius Ptolemeus, Klaúdios Ptolemaĩos, Plotemy, Potolemy, Ptolemaeus, Ptolemaus, Ptolemeus, Ptolemey, Ptolemy's discovery, Ptolemy's Optics, Ptolemy's optics, Ptolemy (astrologer), Ptolemy of Alexandria, Ptolemäus, Ptolemæus, Ptolomey, Ptolomy, Tolemaeus, Πτολεμαίος
Wikidata Alias
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2nd cent. -- Translations into Welsh Ptolemy, Claudius Ptolemaeus, Claudius Ptolemeus, Claudius Ptolemy, Klaudios Ptolemaios, Ptolomeo

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