Life
In what years did Claudius Ptolemy live?
100 CE to around 170 CE
What fields of research did Claudius Ptolemy study? (**Hint...there are at least four)
Astronomy, Geography, Astrology, and Mathematics
In what city was Claudius Ptolemy born and later died?
Alexandria, Egypt
True or false...one of Claudius Ptolemy's major works is "The Geometry"?
False...his major works include The Almagest, The Tetrabiblios, The Geography, The Optics, and The Harmonics.
True or False...Claudius Ptolemy was Roman.
False...he was Greek.
In the Almagest, how did Claudius Ptolemy explain his model of the Solar System?
He believed that Earth was at the center, and the Sun, Moon, and planets revolved around it. This idea is called the geocentric model.