Shocking’ results from a major astronomical study have raised doubts about the standard model of cosmology, forcing ...

The first great attempt to make mapping realistic came in the second century A.D. with Claudius Ptolemy. He was an astronomer and astrologer obsessed with making accurate horoscopes, which ...

An international conference on the origins of galaxies pays tribute to the pioneering scientific cooperation between Muslims, ...

Ptolemy’s model and many earlier ideas of the Solar System had the Earth at the centre of it. As observations of the motions of the planets became more detailed, the descriptions of the Solar ...

New research has revealed that the cosmological model developed ... teachings of Aristotle and Ptolemy, who thought the Earth was at rest at the center of the universe with other planets ...

Now researchers have managed to recover the text written by Ptolemy on a parchment that suffered such a previous recovery attempt. Outermost six rings of the meteoroscope, not to scale.

Lawrence University & Buerger Coin Collection Gold Octodrachm of Ptolemy III Euergetes... Gold Octodrachm of Ptolemy III Euergetes, Egypt, 27.81 g. Ptolemy III Euergetes (Benefactor) carried on ...

Ptolemy was not the first classical author to describe Central Europe, and the territory of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia in particular. The importance of his work is rather concerned with a list of ...

Ibn-al-shatir's lunar model from which Copernicus ... on the teachings of Aristotle and Ptolemy, who thought the Earth was at rest at the center of the universe with other planets, including ...