Similar words: stole, solemn, tolerate, tolerant, polemic, tolerance, tolerable, tolerably. Meaning: n. 1. Alexandrian astronomer who proposed a geocentric system of astronomy that was undisputed until Copernicus (2nd century AD) 2. an ancient dynasty of Macedonian kings who ruled Egypt from 323 BC to 30 BC; founded by Ptolemy I and ended with Cleopatra.
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1. Ptolemy charted more than 1000 stars in 48 constella-tions.
2. It was the Greek astronomer, Ptolemy, who postulated that the Earth was at the centre of the universe.
3. It was Ptolemy who propounded the theory that the earth was at the centre of the universe.
4. That Ptolemy was a conservative, even a reactionary in certain respects, is undeniable.
5. Ptolemy was free, however, to lay his prime meridian, the zero-degree longitude line, wherever he liked.
6. The work of Ptolemy thus took on immense value because of its utility.
7. Ptolemy compiled a star catalogue in which he listed 48 constellations.
8. Ptolemy himself had only an armchair appreciation of the wider world.
9. We will have good cause to return to Ptolemy later on.
10. In it, Ptolemy summarized much of the scientific knowledge which had been amassed over the previous centuries.
11. Significantly, Ptolemy completed his geometric calculations without so much as developing one new idea of major theoretical value.
12. Ptolemy was much more ambitious in his use of the epicycle and extended the system to include all seven planets.
13. No Ptolemy has ever committed suicide.
14. He was succeeded by his son,[sentencedict.com/ptolemy.html] Ptolemy II Philadelphus.
15. Antarctic exploration begins with Ptolemy.
16. Is the most famous astronomer Ptolemy.
17. His general Ptolemy II got the Kingdom of Egypt, which was very,very important because Egypt was one of the wealthiest parts of the ancient world.
18. They tell me there is no Ptolemy has ever committed suicide.
19. We show above that Hipparchus' and Ptolemy 's arguments are based on an implicit false premise - that one would feel the motion.
20. Ptolemy II was the first general who ruled Egypt, and then his descendants would be named II,III, and IV and that sort of--and so forth.
21. Ptolemy II took Egypt and set up his own sort of Greco-Egyptian kingdom there, sometimes you'll hear us talk about the Syrian Empire or the Greco Syrian Empire,or simply the Greek Empire.
22. So did the idea of perfect circles or spheres though Ptolemy added other variants.
23. The wish to discern a framework for the Earth itself is something which dates back at least to the time of Ptolemy.
24. This eliminated the complex system of epicycles that both Copernicus and Ptolemy had found necessary.
25. Aquinas himself saw no finality in the solutions offered by either Aristotle or Ptolemy to the problems of planetary motion.
26. The Equator marked the zero-degree parallel of latitude for Ptolemy.
27. Egyptian archaeologists who found the temple say it was built by Queen Berenike II, wife of Greek King Ptolemy III, who ruled Egypt from 246 to 221 B.C.
28. Married at the age of 16 to Lysimachus of Thrace, a 60-year-old general of Ptolemy I, Arsino? earned great wealth and honors during her time in Greece.
29. My father was the Pharaoh of Egypt when I was born, and his name was Ptolemy XII.
30. When, 18 years later, Lysimachus died, she married her half-brother, Ptolemy Keraunus.
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