Sunday, January 30, 2005

The School of Athens.....


Claudius Ptolemy(b.85AD in Alexandria) shown in The Scool of Athens. Ptolemy's book "Almagest" was the source book of astronomy until the Copernican Revolution in the fifteenth century. Almagest was the Arabic translation of the original "Mathematike Syntaxis" of Ptolemy, meaning the Great Book.

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