Flourished 146-Circa 170 C.E.
Geographer, Astronomer, And Mathematician
Speculations. Claudius Ptolema eus or Ptolemy, who wrote various works on astronomy and astrology, composed a geographical work (Geographike huphegesis, "Guide to Geography") in eight books during the middle of the second century C.E. His method of deriving latitudes and longitudes from itineraries and days' journeys (as opposed to incorporating these with astrological observation) yielded false measurements of the inhabited world. Although he was an astronomer, he depended on speculation rather than measurements of the earth based on astrology. He placed the Equator too far north, and his estimate of the circumference of the Earth was 30 percent less than the more accurate.....
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