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Claudius and Ptolemy
Before the mention of Alemanni in the time of Caracalla, you would search in vain for Alemanni in the moderately detailed geography of southern Germany in Claudius Ptolemy, written in Greek in the mid-2nd century ; it is likely that at that time, the people who later used that name were known by other designations.
In the 2nd century AD, Claudius Ptolemy catalogued 37 stars in Centaurus.
Pappus believed these results to be important in astronomy and included Euclid's Optics, along with his Phaenomena, in the Little Astronomy, a compendium of smaller works to be studied before the Syntaxis ( Almagest ) of Claudius Ptolemy.
150, Claudius Ptolemaeus ( Ptolemy ) recorded, in books VII-VIII of his Almagest, five stars that appeared nebulous.
Claudius Ptolemy (;, Klaudios Ptolemaios ; ; AD 90 AD 168 ) was a Greek-Roman citizen of Egypt who wrote in Greek.
The name Claudius is a Roman nomen ; the fact that Ptolemy bore it indicates he lived under the Roman rule of Egypt with the privileges and political rights of Roman citizenship.
The mathematician Claudius Ptolemy ' the Alexandrian ' as imagined by a 16th century artist
Claudius Ptolemy: The Geography.
The 2nd century geographer Claudius Ptolemy mentions that the Kasouarioi lived to the east of the Abnoba mountains, in the vicinity of Hesse.
In addition, the period saw the recovery of much of the Alexandrian mathematical, geometric and astronomical knowledge, such as that of Euclid and Claudius Ptolemy.
Claudius Ptolemy ( c. AD 130-170 ), the father of classical astrology, almost completely ignored houses ( Templa as Manlius calls them ) in his astrological text, Tetrabiblos.
Claudius Ptolemy ( in his work Optics ) wrote about the properties of light including: reflection, refraction, and color and tabulated angles of refraction for several media
* c. 150 CE Claudius Ptolemy completes his Almagest that codifies the astronomical knowledge of his time and cements the geocentric model in the West
In the system of Claudius Ptolemy ( fl.
* Ptolemy the Latin translation of Claudius Ptolemy's work Planisphaerium is a significant work which was produced in Toulouse in 1143.
Claudius Ptolemy ( c. 120 CE ) was an ancient astronomer and astrologer in early Imperial Roman times who wrote several books on astronomy.
Claudius Ptolemy refined the deferent / epicycle concept and introduced the equant as a mechanism for accounting for velocity variations in the motions of the planets.
Written in Greek by Claudius Ptolemy, a Roman era scholar of Egypt, it is one of the most influential scientific texts of all time, with its geocentric model accepted for more than twelve hundred years from its origin in Hellenistic Alexandria, in the medieval Byzantine and Islamic worlds, and in Western Europe through the Middle Ages and early Renaissance until Copernicus.
According to Claudius Ptolemy in his work Almagest, this gave rise to an era beginning noon on February 26, 747 BC when the Anno Nabonassari began, but prior to the hellenistic period there is no trace of this era.
In his book Geographia ( c. 150 AD ), Claudius Ptolemaeus (" Ptolemy ") called the island Iouerníā ( written ).
The scientists Claudius Ptolemy and Johannes Kepler also contributed to the creation of optometry.
* Ptolemy, Claudius.
The terms " inferior planet " and " superior planet " were originally used in the geocentric cosmology of Claudius Ptolemy to differentiate as ' inferior ' those planets ( Mercury and Venus ) whose epicycle remained collinear with the Earth and Sun, compared to the ' superior ' planets ( Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn ) that did not.
The name was still retained by geographers, though its boundaries are not distinctly defined by the geographer Claudius Ptolemy.

Claudius and 83
In his Geographia, Claudius Ptolemy ( 83 161 AD ), refining existing knowledge of his day, provided a description of the known lands, and a calculation of the remainder of the Earth's surface.

Claudius and
* 10 BC Claudius, Roman emperor ( d. 54 )
* 1740 Matthias Claudius, German poet ( d. 1815 )
* Suetonius, De vita Caesarum Claudius v. 44 and Nero vi. 5. 3, 28. 2, 34. 1 4
* 355 Claudius Silvanus, accused of treason, proclaims himself Roman Emperor against Constantius II.
From Emperor Claudius ( reigned AD 41 54 ) onwards, Varro's calculation ( see below ) superseded other contemporary calculations.
Claudius ( Latin: Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ; 1 August 10 BC 13 October AD 54 ) was Roman Emperor from 41 to 54.
Gold coin of Claudius ( 50 51 ) excavated in South India, an example of Indo-Roman trade during the period.
" The Imbecillitas of the Emperor Claudius ", Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, 79 79 86.
" Claudius and the Senators ", American Journal of Philology, 78 ( 3 ): 279 286.
Claudius ' Ascent to Power ", Ancient History, 22 25 31.
" Some Observations on the Censorship of Claudius and Vitellius, AD 47 48 ", American Journal of Philology, 114 ( 4 ): 611 618.
" The Date of the Inscription of Claudius on the Arch of Ticinum " American Journal of Archaeology 40 ( 3 ): 314 322.
" Thoughts on Tacitus ' Portrayal of Claudius " American Journal of Philology 92 ( 3 ) 385 409.
Modern history has refuted these claims, suggesting these stories later circulated under Flavian rule as part of a propaganda campaign to diminish success under the less reputable Emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and to maximize achievements under Emperor Claudius ( 41 54 ) and his son Britannicus.
Jones compares the executions of Domitian to those under Emperor Claudius ( 41 55 ), noting that Claudius executed around 35 senators and 300 equestrians, and yet was still deified by the Senate and regarded as one of the good Emperors of history.
The last person known to have been able to read Etruscan was the Roman emperor Claudius ( 10 BC AD 54 ), the author of a treatise in twenty volumes on the Etruscans, Tyrrenikà ( now lost ), who compiled a dictionary ( also lost ) by interviewing the last few elderly rustics who still spoke the language.
* 41 Britannicus, Roman son of Emperor Claudius
* 55 Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman Emperorship, dies under mysterious circumstances in Rome.
* Claudius King of Denmark, and Hamlet's uncle.
* 41 After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate.

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