Around 150ad an astronomer named claudius ptolemy wrote a book about how to make a proper map of the world .
在公元150年左右一个名叫克罗狄斯托勒密的天文学家写了一本关于如何绘制一幅实用的世界地图的书。
Cauville reckons the solar eclipse must have occurred in alexandria at around the same time that ptolemy auletes died .
西尔维猜测日食一定发生在亚历山大附近并且大约在同一时间托勒密奥雷特斯死去。
Although it is not uncommon for people to say copernicus proved ptolemy wrong , that is not true .
虽然通常人们会说哥白尼证明托勒密是错的,但这样说不对。
The temple at taposiris magna had been dated to the reign of ptolemy ii , though it may have been even older .
位于塔波西里斯马格纳的神庙可以追溯至托勒密二世统治时期,甚至有可能更为久远。
A famous example of different pictures of reality is the model introduced around a.d. 150 by ptolemy ( ca. 85ca . 165 ) To describe the motion of the celestial bodies .
But there is strangely little discussion of the intellectual underpinnings of copernicus 's system of the world , and of the meticulous observations that eventually convinced him that ptolemy was wrong .
Only 700 years ago , europe 's knowledge of the planet extended no farther than ptolemy 's in roman times : just into northern africa and western asia .
仅仅在700年前,欧洲对于地球的了解和罗马时代的托勒密差不多:只到过北非和西亚。
Chavouet , a graphic artist living in paris , received the ptolemy prize at the 2009 international festival of geography for tokyo on foot .
chavouet,现居巴黎的绘画艺术家,凭借《东京漫步》一书获得了2009年国际地理节的托勒密奖。
But as jerry brotton explains in " a history of the world in twelve maps " , ptolemy 's scientific influence tells only part of the story .
The medieval mappa mundi in england 's hereford cathedral , for example , is little more than drawings on vellum , or stretched calfskin , and it lacks ptolemy 's geometric method .