Term Papers on Ptolemy

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Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemaeus, also known as Ptolemy, was a Greek/Egyptian scientist, astronomer, geographer, and mathematician during the second century.  Ptolemy made many points throughout his years of studies which were used and relied upon for the next 1300 years. Although some of his theories have been proven incorrect, many others haven't and are still used today in mathematics.
      Born in Egypt and living from about AD 100 to 170, Ptolemy was one of the greatest astronomers and geographers of all ancient times. Ptolemy was famous for making many astronomical, geographical, and mathematical contributions. He mainly studied mathematics during his life time to help with the geography and astronomy he was working on. Ptolemy has also written a large number of books based on his studies. Among his greatest are the Almagest, Geography, Optics, Analemma, Planisphearium, and Tetrabibles.
     While living in Alexandria, Egypt for a period of his life, Ptolemy made many astronomical observations. This data was put together into a thirteen series book entitled Mathematical Composition, also referred to as the System of Mathematics. Mathematical Composition became one of the greatest books ever written during Ptolemy's time and was so well admired that it was given the term "Almagest" meaning "greatest". The Almagest stated that gravity is all forced to the center of the earth.  It introduced the idea that the earth was motionless and the moon and sun rotated around it. Also, according to Ptolemy, stars didn't move in the atmosphere.
     Ptolemy's major mathematical contribution was stating the motions of each planet in the solar system, in the Almagest. To find the motions of the sun, moon, Earth, and other planets, Ptolemy used geometric models to estimate their positions. The Almagest also contains a star catalog. Two of its books  mathematically describe the arrangement of 1,022 stars in space. Each star was given a latitude and longitude number to find its location in space, and they were grouped in 48 different g...

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