2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer

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The school of Athens: a gathering of ancient philosophers. Engraving by G. Mochetti after Raphael.

The school of Athens: a gathering of Greek philosophers disputing with Saint Paul the Apostle. Engraving by G. Ghisi, 1550, after Raphael.

Mathematicians: Ptolemy, Pythagoras, Euclid, Nicomachus, Aristoxenus and Iamblichus. Engraving after J. van Steegeren, 1667 or 1668.

Nicolas Copernicus among other astronomers of the world. Process print after a wood engraving by J. Styfi and J. Holewinski, 18--, after M.E. Andirolli, 1873.

Mathematicians and astronomers: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

The School of Athens: a key to the figures in the centre of the composition. Engraving by G. Volpato, after Raphael.

Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy). Woodcut by T. Stimmer, 1587.

The school of Athens: a gathering of ancient philosophers. Engraving by J. & T. Bartlett, 1835, after Raphael.

Aristotle and Ptolemy discuss with Copernicus their respective views on the movements of the Sun and the Earth. Engraving, 1663, after S. Della Bella, 1632.

Astronomy: two rival mathematicians, Urinaal and Raasbollius, argue about models of the solar system. Engraving by P. Tanjé, 1758, after C. Troost, 1741, after by P. Langendijk, 1715.

Astronomy: five astronomers, forming the allegorical titlepage to N. Mulerius,Tabulae frisicae lunae-solares quadruplices. Engraving, 1611.

Astronomy: Ptolemy and Johannes Regiomontanus, seated with an armillary sphere and the heavens above them. Process print, 1879, after a woodcut, 1543.

Astronomy: Ptolemy and Euclid with an armillary sphere between them. Engraving.

The nativity of Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France. Calculated according to the genuine rules and precepts of the learned Claudius Ptolemy ... To which is added, an examination of a treatise published [by Thomas Orger] on this geniture. Exhibiting the cause of error in the radix, etc / By John Worsdale.

Hieronymi Cardani ... In Cl. Ptolemaei Pelvsiensis IIII de astrorum iudicijs, aut, ut uulgò uocant, Quadripartitae constructionis libros commentaria, quae non solum astronomis & astrologis, sed etiam omnibus philosophiae studiosis plurimum adiumenti adferre poterunt. Nunc primùm in lucem aedita. Praeterea eiusdem Hier. Cardani geniturarum XII et avditv mirabilia et notatu digna, & ad hanc scientiam recte exercendam obseruatu utilia, exempla. Atque alia multa quae interrogationibus et electionibus praeclarè seruiunt uanáque à ueris rectè secernunt. Ac denique eclipseos, quam grauissima pestis subsecuta est, exemplum / [Ptolemy].

Traité de géographie ... / traduit ... du grec en français ... Par M. l'abbé Halma.

De praedictionibus astronomicis, cui titulum fecerunt Quadripartitum, graece et latine libri IIII / Philippo Melanthone interprete. Ejusdem Fructus librorum suorum, sive Centum dicta, ex conversione Joviani Pontani.

Aphorismes d'astrologie tirée de Ptolomée, Hermes, Cardan, Munfredus, et plusieurs autres / Traduit en françois par A.C. et augmenté d'une preface de la vraye astrologie. De L. Meysonnier.

The Tetrabiblos; or Quadripartite of Ptolemy being four books, relative to the starry influences / Translated from the copy of Leo Allatius [i.e. from his Latin version of the paraphrase of Proclus], with critical and explanatory notes. By James Wilson.

The compost of Ptholomeus, prince of astronomye : very necessarye, vtile, and profytable, for all suche, as desyre the knowledge of the science of astronomye.

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Traité de géographie ... / traduit ... du grec en français ... Par M. l'abbé Halma.

De praedictionibus astronomicis, cui titulum fecerunt Quadripartitum, graece et latine libri IIII / Philippo Melanthone interprete. Ejusdem Fructus librorum suorum, sive Centum dicta, ex conversione Joviani Pontani.

Aphorismes d'astrologie tirée de Ptolomée, Hermes, Cardan, Munfredus, et plusieurs autres / Traduit en françois par A.C. et augmenté d'une preface de la vraye astrologie. De L. Meysonnier.

The Tetrabiblos; or Quadripartite of Ptolemy being four books, relative to the starry influences / Translated from the copy of Leo Allatius [i.e. from his Latin version of the paraphrase of Proclus], with critical and explanatory notes. By James Wilson.

The compost of Ptholomeus, prince of astronomye : very necessarye, vtile, and profytable, for all suche, as desyre the knowledge of the science of astronomye.

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Ptolemy

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Traité de géographie ... / traduit ... du grec en français ... Par M. l'abbé Halma.

De praedictionibus astronomicis, cui titulum fecerunt Quadripartitum, graece et latine libri IIII / Philippo Melanthone interprete. Ejusdem Fructus librorum suorum, sive Centum dicta, ex conversione Joviani Pontani.

Aphorismes d'astrologie tirée de Ptolomée, Hermes, Cardan, Munfredus, et plusieurs autres / Traduit en françois par A.C. et augmenté d'une preface de la vraye astrologie. De L. Meysonnier.

The Tetrabiblos; or Quadripartite of Ptolemy being four books, relative to the starry influences / Translated from the copy of Leo Allatius [i.e. from his Latin version of the paraphrase of Proclus], with critical and explanatory notes. By James Wilson.

The compost of Ptholomeus, prince of astronomye : very necessarye, vtile, and profytable, for all suche, as desyre the knowledge of the science of astronomye.

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