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| | Ptolemy I Soter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In the long wars that followed between the different Diadochi, Ptolemy's first goal was to hold Egypt securely, and his second was to secure control in the outlying areas: Cyrenaica and Cyprus, as well as Syria, including the province of Judea. | | | Henceforth, Ptolemy seems to have mingled as little as possible in the rivalries between Asia Minor and Greece; he lost what he held in Greece, but reconquered Cyprus in 295/294. | | | When the coalition against Antigonus was renewed in 302, Ptolemy joined it, and invaded Syria a third time, while Antigonus was engaged with Lysimachus in Asia Minor. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_I_of_Egypt
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| | PTOLEMY - LoveToKnow Article on PTOLEMY |
| | It must be noticed that Ptolemys extension of Asia eastwards, so as to diminish by 500 of longitude the interval between easternmost Asia and westernmost Europe, fostered Columbus belief that it was possible to reach the former from the latter by direct navigation, crossing the Atlantic. | | | In Asia, as in Africa, Ptolemy had obtained, as we have seen, a vague, sometimes valuable, often misleading, half-knowledge of extensive regions, hitherto unknown to the Mediterranean world, and especially of Chinese Asia and its capital of Sera (Singanfu). | | | As to north Europe, Ptolemys views were vague and imperfect. |
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http://9.1911encyclopedia.org/P/PT/PTOLEMY.htm
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| | Ptolemy II |
| | Ptolemy II further conducted liaisons with Cleino, Didyme, Mnesis, Myrtion, Pothine and Stratonice | | | Further, Samuel provides indirect evidence that the Macedonian year number was ahead of the Egyptian year number under Ptolemy III from the sequences of dates and events in other papyri. | | | On Sethe's theory that Ptolemy II also married an Egyptian princess descended from Nectanebo I see |
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http://www.geocities.com/christopherjbennett/ptolemies/ptolemy_ii.htm
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| | Ptolemy |
| | ADELFWN, conjoined busts of Ptolemy II and Arsinöe II right; Ptolemy is diademed and draped, Arsinöe is diademed and veiled; Gallic shield behind their heads / QEWN, conjoined busts of Ptolemy I and Berenike I; Ptolemy is diademed and draped, Berenike is diademed and veiled. | | | Unpopular, was driven out of Egypt by his subjects and murdered at sea. | | | Ptolemy II, son of Ptolemy I and co-ruler with his father for two years. |
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http://members.verizon.net/vze3xycv/RulersCoins/ptolemyPic.htm
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| | Ptolemy Biography |
| | 'Claudius' suggests he held Roman citizenship, 'Ptolemy' that he was of Greek descent and lived in Egypt. | | | G.J.Toomer "Ptolemy", pp.186-206 in The Dictionary of Scientific Biography, New York 1970 | | | Nothing reliable is known of Claudius Ptolemy's life that cannot be deduced from his surviving works; only a few brief and unsupported biographical statements are made by much later sources. |
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http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/starry/ptolemy.html
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| | Ptolemy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Ptolemy's Geography of Asia - Selected problems of Ptolemy's Geography of Asia (currently in German) | | | Ptolemy world map - map of the ancient world as described by Claudius Ptolemaeus. | | | This too is a compilation of what was known about the world's geography in the Roman Empire during his time. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy
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| | Ptolemy - MSN Encarta |
| | Of considerable historical importance, is Ptolemy's Geography, which charts the world as people of his time knew it. | | | Ptolemy began by accepting the generally held theory that the earth did not move but was at the center of the universe. | | | Ptolemy proposed that the planets, sun, and moon moved in small circles around much larger circles, in which the earth was centered. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761562047/Ptolemy.html
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| | Ptolemy |
| | Ptolemy's map consists of the world known to him; he does not speculate on the unknown, and as he worked in Alexandria the map is most detailed round the Mediterranean. | | | Unfortunately, none of his maps survived and his work was lost to the West until the Renaissance. | | | Scholars in the 15th century recreated Ptolemy's map using the instructions in his work Geography, which explain how to project a sphere onto a flat piece of paper using a system of gridlines - longitude and latitude. |
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http://www.empereur.com/ptolemy.html
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| | Ptolemy I Soter |
| | Ptolemy also became friends with Calanus, an Indian sage who followed Alexander to the west and fell ill in Pasargadae. | | | In these years, Ptolemy also founded the cult of Serapis, an Egyptian god who was "recreated" in such a fashion that he was acceptable to the Greeks and Macedonians. | | | Ptolemy's whereabouts in the initial phase of the Sogdian war are not known, but in 328, he commanded one of five armies that forced the Sogdian population to give up their ancient way of life and settle in cities. |
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http://www.livius.org/ps-pz/ptolemies/ptolemy_i_soter.htm
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| | Ptolemy |
| | Christopher Columbus, for example, used it to strengthen his belief that Asia could be reached by travelling westward because Ptolemy had indicated that Asia extended much farther east than it actually does. | | | On the motions of the Sun, Moon, and planets, Ptolemy again extended the observations and conclusions of Hipparchus--this time to formulate his geocentric theory, which is popularly known as the Ptolemaic system. | | | Although Ptolemy realized that the planets were much closer to the Earth than the "fixed" stars, he seems to have believed in the physical existence of crystalline spheres, to which the heavenly bodies were said to be attached. |
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http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/glossary/ptolemy.html
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| | Ptolemy's Table of Chords |
| | This was subsequently transliterated by the Arabs as al-Magiste from whence came the name Almagest. | | | It appears that either Ptolemy's computers (persons hired to do the menial calculations) did not carry their work out beyond the seconds place or they did not believe in rounding up ever. | | | Ptolemy carried his work out further by dividing the interval between successive chords into thirtieths. |
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http://hypertextbook.com/eworld/chords.shtml
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| | Ptolemy and Egypt |
| | The Treasury became enriched, the soil more fertile, but the people were impoverished and did not possess the freedom and initiative of the democratic Greek cities. | | | All the land was owned by Ptolemy and was farmed for his use, as had been the custom in Egypt for centuries. | | | Ptolemy did not interfere with the religious beliefs and customs of the Egyptians; as in India, these had become too deeply intertwined with the lives and traditions of the nation. |
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http://www.hackneys.com/alex_web/pages/Ptolemy.htm
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| | Ptolemy - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Ptolemy |
| | It is supposed that these vast plains are strewn with blocks of lava from the neighboring volcanoes on its right, Ptolemy, Purbach, Arzachel. | | | In his thesis on astrology, Tetrabiblios, Ptolemy suggests that some force from the stars may influence the lives and events in the human experience. | | | Dynasty of kings of Macedonian origin who ruled Egypt over a period of 300 years; they included: |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Ptolemy
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| | Skyscript: The Life & Work of Ptolemy by Deborah Houlding |
| | Thus Sextus Empiricus, attacking astrology about 200 AD, does not mention the Tetrabiblos and some of the Christian critics of astrology apparently had not read it. | | | Through this hypothesis Ptolemy explains how the constant movement of the planets creates an ever-changing atmosphere to which all the Earth's creatures are sensitive. | | | Working from his observatory he catalogued over 1000 stars (300 of which were newly discovered), created the first viable theory of the refraction of light, discussed the dimensions of the planets with considerable precision and made many other general advances. |
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http://www.skyscript.co.uk/ptolemy.html
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| | Claudius Ptolemy |
| | His maps of Asia and Africa are said to have inspired Christopher Columbus, many centuries later, in his westward expedition to India across the Atlantic. | | | Little is known about Ptolemy's life and education, other that he lived and worked in Alexandria, one of the primary centers of Greek culture in late antiquity, and that he has no genealogical relationship whatsoever to the Pharaoh dynasty bearing the same name (as believed by many in medieval times). | | | His landmark astronomical work is his Mathematical compilation, (or Syntaxis, as Prolemy himself referred to it) better known under the name Amalgest, given to it by its later Arabic translators and commentators. |
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http://www.hao.ucar.edu/Public/education/bios/ptolemy.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ptolemy the Gnostic |
| | Thirty of these, as he believes, rule the higher world, the pleroma. | | | This law, Ptolemy states, cannot be attributed to the Supreme God, nor to the devil; nor does it proceed from one law-giver. | | | In his interpretation of the universe, Ptolemy resorted to a fantastic system of eons. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12553c.htm
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| | Fragments of Ptolemy |
| | Irenaeus also refers to the views of Ptolemy in Against Heresies 1.12. | | | But the followers of Ptolemy say that he [Bythos] has two consorts, which they also name Diatheses (affections), viz., Ennoae and Thelesis. | | | For, as they affirm, he first conceived the thought of producing something, and then willed to that effect. |
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http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/ptolemy.html
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| | Copernicus, Ptolemy, and Cosmology |
| | Representation of Ptolemy's Cosmos taken from Johannes Hevelius' Selenographia. | | | In the first book of the Almagest, Ptolemy presented the cosmological assumptions, which served as the foundation of his astronomy. | | | Similarly, Copernicus considered cosmological questions in the first book of De revolutionibus. |
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http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/starry/copercosmol.html
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| | Ptolemy (about 85-165 AD) |
| | Numbers are those in Bailly (1843), here taken from Kenneth Glyn Jones (1968) | | | This work bound astronomical thinking in the western as well as the arabic world to geocentrism, but also gave positions of the "fixed" stars, and 48 constellations still used today. | | | Ptolemy biography from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland |
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http://www.seds.org/messier/xtra/Bios/ptolemy.html
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| | Amazon.com: Ptolemy's Geography: Books: Ptolemy,J. Lennart Berggren,Alexander Jones |
| | Amazon.com: Ptolemy's Geography: Books: Ptolemy,J. Lennart Berggren,Alexander Jones | | | This item is not eligible for Amazon Prime, but over a million other items are. | | | One of the greatest technical triumphs of the ancient world, Ptolemy's Geography can teach us much about the world in which he lived and worked. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691010420?v=glance
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| | Claudius Ptolemy |
| | This theory of the sun forms the subject of Book 3. | | | Ptolemy also a popular account of his results. | | | In Books 4 through 6, Ptolemy gives his theory of the moon. |
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http://www.stetson.edu/~efriedma/periodictable/html/Pm.html
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| | Ptolemy is also famous for his work in geography. | | | Ptolemy believed that the Earth was at the center of the universe and all other heavenly bodies circled it, a view which held for 1400 years until the time of Copernicus. | | | Ptolemy was a Greek astronomer who lived between 85-165 A.D. He put together his own ideas with those of Aristotle and Hipparchus and formed a unified model of the universe. |
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http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/people/ancient_epoch/ptolemy.html&fr=t&edu=elem
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| | Ptolemy, the Man |
| | Ptolemy's system involved at least 80 epicycles to explain the motions of the Sun, the Moon, and the five planets known in his time. | | | It is doubtful that Ptolemy actually believed in the reality of his system. | | | Ptolemy synthesized and extended Hipparchus's system of epicycles and eccentric circles to explain his geocentric theory of the solar system. |
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http://obs.nineplanets.org/psc/theman.html
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| | Ptolemaic Dynasty - Ptolemy I - XV |
| | After the death of his uncle Ptolemy IX Soter II (Lathyros), his step-mother (or possibly mother) Cleopatra Berenice ruled for about one year alone. | | | She failed to marry him and moved on to Syria where she used her army as a dowry and married Antiochus IX Cyzicenus who was son of Antiochus Sidetes and Cleopatra Thea. | | | Upon Philometor's death, Cleopatra's son, who was about 16 years old and had been appointed co-ruler by his father earlier that year, became king under his mother's regency. |
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http://www.crystalinks.com/ptolemaic.html
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| | Ptolemy |
| | As a geographer Ptolemy occupies a similar position to what he holds in astronomy; he appears before his readers as the corrector and improver of the works of a predecessor, Marinus of Tyre, about whom, except from Ptolemy's writings, little is known. | | | Others of Ptolemy's works have been lost, and it is still a moot point whether or not they contained a treatise on optics, as a Latin version of what is said to have been an Arabic translation of Ptolemy's original treatise on that subject is still in existence. | | | Ptolemy seems to have been little of an independent observer, trusting implicitly to his predecessor, Hipparchus; but his geometical powers were of a very high order, unless, as Delambre suggests (most likely incorrectly), the leegant demonstrations here and there occurring in the Algamest were borrowed from other sources. |
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http://www.nndb.com/people/035/000029945
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| | PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway: Search/Browse Results |
| | Ptolemy was famous for his geocentric theory of the Solar System. | | | This site provides a biography of Claudius Ptolemy, a Greek astronomer renowned for his geocentric theory of the Solar System. | | | This is a brief biography of Claudius Ptolemy, an astronomer, mathematician and geographer, who lived from approximately 87 -150 AD. |
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http://www.psigate.ac.uk/roads/cgi-bin/psisearch.pl?term1=Ptolemy&subject=All&limit=0
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| | Ptolemy VIII |
| | This epithet assures us that Ptolemy was his name at birth. | | | For the suggestion that he had a daughter Berenice who was the fiancee of Attalus III of Pergamon, see discussion under Berenice. | | | is interpreted as naming two sons of Ptolemy VIII who were killed in Cyprus, Ptolemy Memphites and another son summoned there from Cyrene, then the Cyrenean son would be a third. |
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http://www.geocities.com/christopherjbennett/ptolemies/ptolemy_viii.htm
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| | The Galileo Project Science Ptolemaic System |
| | Ptolemy combined all three constructions in the models of the planets, Sun, and Moon. | | | In the world of learning in the Christian West (settled in the universities founded around 1200 CE), Aristotle's cosmology figured in all questions concerned with the nature of the universe and impinged on many philosophical and theological questions. | | | In his books On the Heavens, and Physics, Aristotle put forward his notion of an ordered universe or cosmos. |
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http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/theories/ptolemaic_system.html
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| | Ptolemy World Map Biography @ EveryAvenue.com (Every Avenue) |
| | The Ptolemy world map is a map based on the description of the world contained in Ptolemy's book Geographia, written circa 150 CE. | | | Although authentic maps have never been found, the Geographia contains thousands of references to various parts of the old world, with coordinates for most, which allowed cartographers to recontruct Ptolemy's world view when the manuscript were re-discovered around 1300 CE. | | | The map distinguishes two large "closed" seas, the first one being the Mediterranean, the second one being the Indian Ocean (Indicum Pelagus), which extends into the China Sea (Magnus Sinus) in the East. |
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http://www.everyavenue.com/encyclopedia/Ptolemy_world_map
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| | Ptolemy summary |
| | Ptolemy was the most influential of Greek astronomers and geographers of his time. |
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http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Ptolemy.html
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| | Ptolemy |
| | Ptolemy also offers support for some other MoC's that are less interesting from our point of view. | | | Ptolemy Classic was developed between 1990 and 1997 but it has been still in use thereafter. | | | This could be accomplished by creating a mix of all the previous ones but such a mixture would be extremely complex and difficult to use. |
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http://www.create.ucsb.edu/~xavier/Thesis/html/node54.html
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| | *** The House of Ptolemy: Ptolemaic and Roman Egyptian Numismatics *** |
| | This was: *** The House of Ptolemy: Ptolemaic and Roman Egyptian Numismatics *** at | | | Investigates when and which Ptolemy left his inheritance to Rome and any numismatic evidence in Roman Republican Coinage. | | | of Ptolemy II, diademed and wearing chlamys, and Arsinoe II, diademed and veiled; shield in left field; ADELFWN: of the siblings. |
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http://www.houseofptolemy.org/housenum.htm
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| | The Ptolemy Project |
| | The Ptolemy Project provides access to contemporary, full-text medical information, both journals and texts, and a recently completed survey (to be presented at the upcoming ASEA meeting in Addis Ababa) shows that Ptolemy participants report it has made a strongly positively impact on their clinical practice, teaching and research activities. | | | The Ptolemy Project - Office of International Surgery - University of Toronto | | | The Ptolemy model, of a large western university partnering with a professional group in the developing world and thus linking them with essential library resources, could easily be emulated by other groups and universities to help close the digital divide. |
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http://www.ptolemy.ca/research.htm
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| | NOVA Online Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance Mapping Terra Incognita PBS |
| | Ptolemy's conception held sway for centuries; this map was faithfully drawn from his coordinates by a Renaissance cartographer in 1482. | | | Lands beyond the bounds of the known world tantalized the imaginations of ancient scholars, inspiring visions of a lush empire far to the south. | | | Claudius Ptolemy (150 AD) map drawn from Ptolemy's coordinates for a 1482 edition of his Geographia (The Ulm Edition, Leinhard Holle) |
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/shackleton/surviving/mapping.html
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| | Ptolemy II |
| | Ptolemy II This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them. |
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http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/ptolemyII
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| | Aristotelian Cosmology |
| | He then used this theory to make predictions (such as where will Mars be a year from now) which were confirmed by subsequent observations. | | | Next: The motion according to Up: Aristotle and Ptolemy Previous: |
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http://phyun5.ucr.edu/~wudka/Physics7/Notes_www/node35.html
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| | PTOLEMY'S GEOGRAPHY |
| | The basis for this page is Book 2 of Ptolemy's Geography, the last two paragraphs of chapter 1, and the entirety of chapter 2, purloined from the website of Bill Thayer; which is - he assures me - in the public domain. | | | Ptolemy's description of the Irish coastline, rivers and towns has been omitted from here. |
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http://www.roman-britain.org/ptolemy.htm
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