File:Ptolemy Muller.jpg

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English: Frontispiece illustration from Ptolemy's Almagest, Venice, 1496, depicting Ptolemy instructing Regiomontanus under an image of the zodiac encircling the celestial sphere
Date 15th century
date QS:P,+1450-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
Source Almagest, 1496
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Ptolemy  (100–170)  wikidata:Q34943 s:en:Author:Ptolemy q:en:Ptolemy
 
Ptolemy
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Birth name: Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος; Claudius Ptolemaeus; Claudius Ptolemeus; Claudius Ptolemy; Klaudios Ptolemaios
Description Roman mathematician, geographer, astronomer, astrologer, music theorist and philosopher
Date of birth/death circa  Edit this at Wikidata circa  Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Ptolemais Hermiou Edit this at Wikidata Alexandria Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q34943

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