Ptolemy
c. 100–c. 170
Alexandrian astronomer whose Earth-centered model lasted over a thousand years.
Ptolemy (c. 100–c. 170) was an astronomer, born in Ptolemais Hermiou and died in Alexandria.
- Known as
- Astronomer
- Category
- Scientists & Inventors
- Born
- c. 100, Ptolemais Hermiou
- Died
- c. 170, Alexandria
Alive at the same time as Ptolemy
- Plutarch c. 46–c. 120, biographer
- Epictetus c. 50–c. 135, philosopher
- Rabbi Akiva c. 50–135, rabbi
- Zhang Heng 78–139, astronomer
- Marcus Aurelius 121–180, emperor
- Galen 129–c. 216, physician
- Nagarjuna c. 150–c. 250, philosopher
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