2 QUOTES WITH «PTOLEMY»
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Ptolemy.
Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.
The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PTOLEMY»
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Ptolemy's Geography: An Annotated Translation of the ...
Ptolemy's Geography is the only book on cartography to have survived from the classical period and one of the most influential scientific works of all time.
J. L. Berggren, Alexander Jones, 2000
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Ptolemy the second Philadelphus and his world
In this book scholars analyse a range of key aspects of Phiadelphus' world.
Paul R. McKechnie, Philippe Guillaume, 2008
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Scientific Method in
Ptolemy's Harmonics
Examines the scientific procedures devised by Ptolemy for investigating the structures underlying musical melody.
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Encomium of
Ptolemy Philadelphus
As the first detailed account of this important poem to show how Theocritus might have drawn on the pharaonic traditions of Egypt as well as earlier Greek poetry, this book affords unique insight into how praise poetry for Ptolemy and his ...
This translation, based on the standard Greek text of Heiberg, makes the work accessible to English readers in an intelligible and reliable form.
Ptolemy, G. J. Toomer, 1984
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Ptolemy's First Commentator: Transactions, APS
The fragmentary text with which this monograph is concerned casts some light on both these murky periods.
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Ptolemy's Theory of Visual Perception: An English ...
The English translation of this text is based upon Albert Lejeune's critical Latin text of 1956, which was reprinted in the 1990s along with a French translation & supplementary annotations. Illus.
Ptolemy, A. Mark Smith, 1996
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Ptolemy Harmonics: translation and commentary
This volume offers a comprehensive English translation and commentary of Ptolemy's "Harmonics.
Ptolemy, Jon Solomon, 2000
She has a plan that could break the endless conflict between djinn and humans - but first she must uncover the secrets of Bartimaeus's past. The Bartimaeus books are published in 35 languages and have sold 5 million copies worldwide.
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Armand
Ptolemy and the Golden Aleph
Synchronicity machines. Difference engines melded with the iChing. Geomancy: the art of making stone float with sound. The hacker collective 'Anonymous'. Secret societies ...This is the world of ARMAND PTOLEMY, a new action-adventure hero.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PTOLEMY»
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'The Crown of Ptolemy' review: Greek and Egyptian heroes unite
“The Crown of Ptolemy” by Rick Riordan is the crossover short story featuring Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, and Sadie and Carter Kane. Check out our ... «Hypable, May 15»
Cover Reveal: 'The Crown of Ptolemy' by Rick Riordan
The Crown of Ptolemy by Rick Riordan is the third short story in the demigod-magician crossover. Read an excerpt and check out the cover featuring Percy, ... «Hypable, Mar 15»
'House of Hades' paperback release date set, contains 'Crown of …
House of Hades US paperback arrives March 31. That will be your first chance to read 'The Crown of Ptolemy,' the third PJO/Kane crossover. — Rick Riordan ... «Hypable, Jan 15»
At Algiers fatal shooting: 'When is it gonna stop?'
A 27-year-old man was shot and killed Monday evening in Algiers, New Orleans police said. The victim was shot several times in the 3200 block of Ptolemy ... «NOLA.com, Dec 14»
Comet landing: UK team's data bonanza from Philae
The "peaks" refer to the graph produced by the Ptolemy instrument of the different molecules it detected. The result is in line with initial observations made by a ... «BBC News, Nov 14»
Does Ferguson Herald the End Times? Ptolemy Says No!
In Russia, Putin is out to restore, of all things, the Soviet empire. In China, Hong Kong's promise of freedom endures slow strangulation. In Europe, neo-fascist ... «Huffington Post, Nov 14»
Octadrachm, reverse: jugate portrait of Ptolemy I and Berenice I …
The Ptolemies who ruled Egypt for nearly three centuries, from about 320 to 31 BCE, had a difficult dual part to play: that of Hellenistic monarchs, in the mold of ... «The New York Review of Books, Oct 14»
Rick Riordan speaks about 'Blood of Olympus' and more at New …
His next short story will be titled, “The Crown of Ptolemy,” and will have all four of those characters in one place. And for those of you who have been missing ... «Hypable, Oct 14»
'Looking' Actor Ptolemy Slocum Joins HBO's 'Westworld' (Exclusive)
Ptolemy Slocum has joined the growing cast of the Warner Bros. Television/HBO's science fiction pilot “Westworld,” TheWrap has learned. WBTV wouldn't ... «TheWrap, Aug 14»
On Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler: when science wasn't politics
Ptolemy wrote several important scientific treatises which well beyond his own time and place held continuing influence to later Islamic and European scientific ... «RenewAmerica, Aug 14»
