... writer, geographer and mathematician of his time and ancient world. The complete name of Ptolemy is a mixture of Greek word and Roman word. Claudius is a Roman word while on the other hand the Ptolemy is a Greek word. The people in the world do not know much about the early life of Ptolemy. According to Theodore ... in Hermiou. Hermiou is located in the upper Egypt near the Alexandria. It is also believed by many historian that, Ptolemy was fall away from a Greek family and he was the citizen of Rome. Ptolemy is considered as the first anthologist and it is believed that the knowledge of ...

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... and is often described as the first pure mathematician. He was born on 569 BC in Samos India. He was a Greek philosopher who made an imperative expansion in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, and the theory of music. He is well known all over the world for formulating the Pythagorean Theorem although its fundamental principles were already recognized earlier. The theorem states ... Thales of Miletus and his pupil Anaximander. Thales was a very old man who shared his will and his knowledge to Pythagoras; he is often credited for getting Pythagoras interested in mathematics and astrono...

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... for the next four years. In 1585 after convincing his father Galileo left the school without a degree realizing he never was interested in medicine and that he had a talent for mathematics. Galileo began being tutored privately and during this time began to question Aristotelian philosophy and scientific thought. At the same time he gained his first public notice with his new ... objects by weighing them in water. This new attention and with the help of friend Guidobaldo, Galileo was appointed professor of mathematics at Pisa in 1589. This position required him to teach courses in astro...

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... has a long tradition. As stated in the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, modern astronomy uses techniques from many other sciences, including physics, mathematics, chemistry, geology, and biology. The astronomers' point of view, however, is often different from that of scientists in other disciplines, because the goal of ... we use them today. Back in 1930, the International Astronomical Union adopted a set of 88 "official- Constellations. Most of the names are Latin or Greek. These constellations have boundaries and together cover the entire sky. Astronomers often can ...

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... in the space (regardless the significance of the term at the time), people have spent uncalculated amount of efforts to make observations throughout the history. The major ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle, populated their worldview based on subjective insights, but falling short of progressive scientific demands. The gradual emerging from Ptolemy's geocentric theory (100- ... historical records, there was a renewed interest in Platonic and Pythagorean philosophy during approximately 200BC. Both philosophies are characterized with the belief of a perfect system and see mathem...

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... orbits called epicycles." (Toomer, p. 187) Ptolemy's system was accepted by astronomers and religious thinkers alike for several hundred years. Ptolemy's earliest and most famous work, originally written in Greek, was translated into Arabic as al-Majisti (Great Work). In Europe, medieval Latin translations reproduced the title as Almagesti, and it has since become known simply as the Almagest. (Toomer ... epicycle to describe the small circle around which he claimed objects in space move. To make his theory of epicycles appear sound, he had to introduce variations from traditional mathe...

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... old physics of Aristotle and the astronomy of Ptolemy were countered by Copernicus. Many of Copernicus" ideas of astronomy, mainly his heliocentric view, which was actually proposed first by the Greek philosopher Aristarchus, were already made known in literature. However, the ideas of Aristarchus were lost with the rise of Aristotelian physics almost 2000 years previous to Copernicus" revisions and publication ... saw the solar system. Galileo did not merely create models of the solar system or physics which were of absolute theory (Galileo). Galileo used experimentation which could be...

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Many scholars accepted the theory of the Greek philosopher Aristotle. He said that the earth was round, stationary, and located in the middle of the universe. The moon, sun and five planets circled it. As astronomers learned more ... the son of a prosperous merchant and was raised by a protective uncle after his father's death. His uncle enabled him to enter the University of Krakow, which was famous for its mathematics, philosophy, and astronomy courses. Next he studied liberal arts at Bologna, medicine at Padua, and law at the University of Ferrara. He left Ferrara in 1503 with a doctorat...

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