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.

AT the meeting on Monday of the Royal Geographical Society, Dr. H. Schlichter read a paper on “Ptolemy's Geography of Eastern Equatorial Africa.” Ptolemy, as a geographer, has received very ...

According to legend, the Septuagint was commissioned and created at the Library of Alexandria. Unsurprisingly, Alexandria became a magnet for scholars. Euclid, Archimedes, and Ptolemy (the ...