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| PTOLEMAEUS | |
| Claudius Ptolemoeus. A famous Greek mathematician, astronomer, and geographer. He came from Ptolemais Hermeion [ruins at modern Menschie] in Upper Egypt, and lived and worked in the 2nd century A.D. The most important of his writings which have been preserved are: | |
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