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ptolemy
/ˈtɑləmi/
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What does ptolemy mean?
proper noun
- Claudius Ptolemaeus (c. 90 – c. 168 AD), a Greek-speaking mathematician, geographer, astronomer, and astrologer who lived in the Hellenistic culture of Alexandria in Roman Egypt. His most important works were the Almagest and the Geography
- Ptolemy I Soter ("Ptolemy the Savior", 367 BC—283 BC), a Macedonian general under Alexander the Great who was the ruler of Egypt (323 B.C.E—283 B.C.E) and founder of the Ptolemaic Empire. In 305 BC he took the role of King.
- The Egyptian ruling dynasty of peoples who held the given name Ptolemy.
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Three of them fell on Ptolemy, the son of Chrysermas, as he was coming out of the palace, and killed him.
A third item of knowledge, supplied by the surveyors of Ptolemy, made the distance between Syene and Alexandria five thousand stadia.
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As Ptolemy Philopater testified of the African elephant, I then testified of the whale, pronouncing him the most devout of all beings.
It is supposed that these vast plains are strewn with blocks of lava from the neighboring volcanoes on its right, Ptolemy, Purbach, Arzachel.
Under his successors, particularly the third Ptolemy, the museum developed, more especially the library, which contained more than half a million volumes.