Ptolemy

The Greek astronomer Ptolemy, who dealt with mathematical astronomy in Almagest, is systematically studied in this doctoral dissertation.

本文通过对于《至大论》这样一部古希腊数理天文学经典著作的解读和研究，重点做了以下工作。

king ptolemy prohibited hegesias from lecturing, lest he depopulate the country.

国王托勒密因此禁止何基西亚斯讲课，以避免其哲学使国家人口下降。

the ptolemies are easier to keep straight because they tended to all be named ptolemy.

托勒密家族比较容易区分，因为他们都叫托勒密。

Ptolemy's model of the universe with the Earth at the center.

托勒枚的以地球为中心的宇宙模型.

The really important thing about Ptolemy's map was that north was at the top.

托勒密所绘制的地图有一点是十分重要的,那就是他把北方置于地图的上方.

And he had seen there evidence enough to overthrow Aristotle and Ptolemy together.

观察到的论据足以把亚里士多德和托勒密一起推翻。

Ever since Claudius Ptolemy published the "Almagest" in the second century AD, almost all astronomers had believed that the Earth lay at the centre of the universe.

公元2世纪托勒密发表《天文学大成》之后，几乎所有的天文学家都认为地球是宇宙的中心，太阳和其他行星每天绕地球一周。

A Study on Almagest of Ptolemy

托勒密《至大论》研究

In Ptolemy ii's time, two Buddhist missionaries arrived, sent by King Asoka of india, but they appear to have made little impact upon the pleasure-loving city.

在托勒密二世统治时，印度国王阿育王派遣了两名僧侣来到亚历山大市，但他们并没给这座喜好享乐的城市带来多大的影响。

Ptolemy charted more than 1000 stars in 48 constella-tions.

托勒密绘制了48个星座1,000多颗恒星的星位图。

In other words, we need to drop Ptolemy and come up with a theory of eurozone relativity.

换言之，我们要抛弃托勒密，用一种欧元区的相对论学说取而代之。

King Ptolemy prohibited Hegesias from lecturing , lest he depopulate the country.

国王托勒密因此禁止何基西亚斯讲课, 以避免其哲学使国家人口下降. )

Knowing this, he fled to Egypt to the protection of the current boy-king Ptolemy XIII(?).

所以他才逃到埃及寻求还是小孩的托勒密十三世（？）的庇护。

Ptolemy is a family to say that they are disfunctional is an understatement.

托勒密家族是一个畸形的家族，这是一个保守的说法。

Is the most famous astronomer Ptolemy.

最为著名的天文学家是托勒密.

Earlier, the Babylonians had attempted to map the world, but they presented it in the form of a flattened disc rather than a sphere, which was the form adopted by Ptolemy.

在这以前更早的时候，巴比伦人曾经企图绘制世界地图，但是巴比伦人绘制成一个扁平的圆盘形，而不是绘制像托勒密所绘制的球形。

One notable Queen Pharaoh ( Pharaess?) was the famous Cleopatra VII, who married her young brother Ptolemy XIII.

其中就有声名显赫的埃及艳后克利奥帕特拉七世下嫁托勒密十三世（Ptolemy XIII），共享床笫之欢。