PTOLEMY (2nd CENTURY A.D.).
CLAUDIUS PTOLEMAEUS PTOLEMY.
GALEN (129-c200 A.D.).
A section of Ptolemy's catalogue of stars.
Ptolemy of Alexandria.
GALILEO GALILEI
Ptolemy of Alexandria's map of the then known world.
HIPPARCHUS (146-127 BC).
GALILEO: TITLE PAGE, 1635.
Claudius Ptolemy (90-168 AD), Greco-Egyptian Mathematician and Astronomer, Woodcut from "Les Vrais Pourtraits et vies des Hommes Illustres", Andre Thevet, 1584
STRABO (?63 B.C.-24 A.D.?).
STRABO (63 B.C.?-?24 A.D.).
EPICTETUS (c55-c135 A.D.).
Ptolemy (Claudius of Ptolemaeus c90-158)
Ptolemy and Euclid, 17th century artwork
ARCHIMEDES (287-212 BC).
PYTHAGORAS (d. 497 B.C.)
SEXTUS EMPIRICUS (c160-c210).
CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA
EPICURUS (342?-270 B.C.).
ST. JUSTIN (c100-c165).
ARCHIMEDES (287?-212 B.C.).
ARCHIMEDES (c287-212 B.C.).
Ptolemy (c.90-c.168)
ARISTARCHUS OF SAMOS
EUCLID (FL. 300 B.C.)
GALILEO: DIALOGO, 1632.
Ptolemy (Claudius of Ptolemaeus)
PYTHAGORAS (c580-c500 B.C.).
ARMILLARY SPHERE, 1531.
PLUTARCH (c46-c120).
THEOPHRASTUS
THALES OF MILETUS
CLAUDIUS I (10 B.C.-54 A.D.).
WORLD MAP: ERATOSTHENES.
HIPPARCHUS (146-127 B.C.).
HERODOTUS, 5th CENTURY B.C.
GALEN AND HIPPOCRATES.
HADRIAN (76-138 A.D.).
LUCIUS COMMODUS (161-192 A.D.).
ANTONINUS PIUS (86-161 A.D.).
EUCLID (FL. 300 B.C.).
EUCLID (fl. 300 B.C.).
EUCLID (fl. c300 B.C.).
SORANUS (fl. 2nd CENTURY).
IN ALMAGESTUM PTOLOMEI.
HERMES/MERCURY.
URANIA & ASTRONOMERS, 1660.
PLANETARY SYSTEMS, 1537.
SOCRATES (470?-399 B.C.).
THUCYDIDES (471?-?400 B.C.)
PLUTARCH (46?-120?).
HERODOTUS.
PLATO (c427 B.C.-c347 B.C.).
XENOPHON (434?-?355 B.C.).
ARISTIPPUS (c435-366 B.C.).
HIPPOCRATES (c460-c377 B.C.).
DEMOCRITUS (c460-c370 B.C.).
HERODOTUS (c484-c420 BC).
DIOGENES (c412-323 B.C.).
EPICURUS (343?-270 B.C.).
PLATO (c427-c347 B.C.).
CLAUDIUS AND MESSALINA.
HOMER (9th-8th CENTURY B.C.).
KARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS
ARCHIMEDES
LUCIUS VERUS (130-169).
LUCIUS SEPTIMIUS SEVERU
LUCIUS SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS
PUBLIUS PERTINAX (126-193).
DOMITIUS ULPIANUS
MARCUS AURELIUS
ROME: FUNERAL PORTRAIT.
LUCIUS COMMODUS (161-192).
Ptolemy (Claudius of Ptolemaeus) activel150 AD
CORNELIUS TACITUS
STEAM ENGINE, 100 A.D.
STEAM ENGINE, c100 A.D.
ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.).
ANTINOUS (c110-130 A.D.).
HERODOTUS (c484-c425 B.C.).
SOCRATES (c470-399 B.C).
HERACLITUS.
HOMER (9th-8th CENTURY BC).
NERO (37-68 A.D.).
Ptolemy, Greek astronomer
Ptolemy, Greek astronomer, artwork
PTOLEMAIC UNIVERSE, 1481.
ARMILLARY SPHERE, 1543.
Claudius Ptolemaeus
An astronomer (Ptolemy of Alexandria?)
MYTHOLOGY: HERA/JUNO.
The constellation of Auriga.
EGYPTIAN COIN: PTOLEMY I.
ATHENS: AMPHITHEATER.
MUMMY OF ARTEMIDORUS.
MITHRAS KILLING THE BULL.
MYTHOLOGY: ORPHEUS.
Imaginative reconstruction of Ptolemy of Alexandria in his observatory.
SOLON (638?-559? B.C.).
GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642).
PTOLEMY: ALMAGEST, 1490.
JUVENAL (60-140 AD).
PTOLEMY THEORY: ARABIC MS.
TSENG TS'AN (505-?436 B.C.).
ZENO OF ELEA (c495-c430 B.C.)
ZENO OF ELEA (c495-c430 B.C.).
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA
Pythagoras (6th century BC)
AUGUST FERDINAND MOEBIUS
AGASSIZ & PEIRCE, 1871.
CHRISTOPHER CLAVIU
FRIEDRICH WILHELM BESSEL
CHRISTOPHER CLAVIUS
GROUP OF PHYSICISTS.
SOPHOCLES (496?-406 B.C.).
PHILEMON (c368-c264 B.C.).
PINDAR (c522-443 B.C.).
ARISTOPHANES
AESCHYLUS (525-456 B.C.).
CALLIMACHUS (305-240 B.C.).
ALCAEUS (c620-c580 B.C.).
HOMER (fl. 850 B.C.?).
EURIPIDES.
EURIPIDES