cartography, compiling the geographical knowledge of the 2nd-century Roman Empire. Originally written by Claudius Ptolemy in Greek at Alexandria around... 49 KB (4,721 words) - 16:40, 30 March 2024 |
Image of the Earth (Kitab surat al-ard), in which he used the Geography (Ptolemy) of Ptolemy but improved upon his values for the Mediterranean Sea, Asia... 73 KB (9,472 words) - 11:10, 26 March 2024 |
Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysus (Ancient Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Νέος Διόνυσος, romanized: Ptolemaios Neos Dionysos, lit. 'Ptolemy the new Dionysus' c. 117 – 51 BC)... 43 KB (4,603 words) - 09:30, 10 March 2024 |
Ptolemy X Alexander I (Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Ἀλέξανδρος, Ptolemaĩos Aléxandros) was the Ptolemaic king of Cyprus from 114 BC until 107 BC and of Egypt from... 21 KB (2,287 words) - 16:56, 15 March 2024 |
Ptolemy.: 193 Islamic cartographers inherited Ptolemy's Almagest and Geography in the 9th century. These works stimulated an interest in geography (particularly... 39 KB (4,692 words) - 06:04, 3 April 2024 |
is a separate country from Serica would be a misconception. In his Geography, Ptolemy wrote of lands in and around the Indian Ocean. He explained that a... 25 KB (2,781 words) - 09:14, 3 March 2024 |
Belgium and Netherlands. In his Geography (AD 150), the Roman geographer Ptolemy provides descriptions of the geography of Germania. Modern scholars have... 28 KB (2,981 words) - 16:49, 9 April 2024 |
Earth can be dated back to ancient geographers such as Ptolemy or Strabo, cultural geography as academic study firstly emerged as an alternative to the... 12 KB (1,329 words) - 01:03, 10 April 2024 |
Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II Tryphon (Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Εὐεργέτης Τρύφων, Ptolemaĩos Euergétēs Tryphōn, "Ptolemy the Benefactor, the Opulent"; c. 184 BC... 55 KB (6,778 words) - 18:31, 19 April 2024 |
Eratosthenes Geography (Ptolemy), Ptolemy's main work besides the Almagest Geography (Strabo), Strabo's 17-volume geographic encyclopedia Geography (journal)... 1 KB (142 words) - 03:53, 22 November 2023 |
Cleopatra (section Reign and exile of Ptolemy XII) BC when Ptolemy returned to Egypt with Roman military assistance. When he died in 51 BC, the joint reign of Cleopatra and her brother Ptolemy XIII began... 216 KB (24,524 words) - 22:02, 2 May 2024 |
Geographer (section Four traditions of geography) of the French school of geopolitics, wrote the principles of human geography. Ptolemy (c. 100 – c. 170) – compiled Greek and Roman knowledge into the book... 14 KB (1,289 words) - 18:51, 4 February 2024 |
earlier maps are believed to be sources, chiefly those based on the Geography (Ptolemy) and the Caveri planisphere and others similar to those of Henricus... 51 KB (7,080 words) - 22:14, 7 March 2024 |
he called Megale Brettania ("Great Britain"). In his later work, Geography, Ptolemy refers to Ireland as Iouernia and to Great Britain as Albion. These... 210 KB (21,074 words) - 07:45, 26 April 2024 |
Hipparchus (redirect from Against the Geography of Eratosthenes) known about Hipparchus comes from Strabo's Geography and Pliny's Natural History in the first century; Ptolemy's second-century Almagest; and additional... 83 KB (10,031 words) - 19:04, 29 March 2024 |
Eratosthenes (redirect from Geography (Eratosthenes)) Winter-Verlag Shcheglov, D.A. (2004/2006). "Ptolemy's System of Seven Climata and Eratosthenes' Geography". Geographia Antiqua 13: 21–37. Shcheglov, D... 37 KB (4,042 words) - 19:25, 15 April 2024 |
Agathodaemon of Alexandria (category Ptolemy) Agathodaemon is mentioned in some of the earliest manuscripts of Ptolemy's Geography: Ἐκ τῶν Κλαυδίου Πτολεμαίου Γεογραφικῶν βιβλίων ὄκτο τὴν οἰκουμένην... 8 KB (812 words) - 00:48, 21 March 2024 |
Protohistory of Ireland (section Ptolemy) Koriondoi Brigantes Iwernoi Peoples of Ireland according to Ptolemy's Geography. Ptolemy describes the northern coast of Ireland, from the Northern Promontory... 11 KB (1,235 words) - 01:50, 22 February 2024 |
Magnus Sinus (redirect from Great Gulf (Ptolemy)) by Ptolemy to mean "a few". Both Alexander and Marinus's works have been lost, but were claimed as authorities by Ptolemy in his Geography. Ptolemy (and... 12 KB (1,286 words) - 16:11, 5 September 2023 |