Quotes About Ptolemy

As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.

As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.

Mine is a khopesh ,' Carter said. 'The original Egyptian version. What you're holding is a kopis – a Greek design adapted from the Egyptian original. It's the kind of sword Ptolemy's warriors would've used.' I looked at Sadie. 'Is he trying to confuse me?' 'No,' she said brightly. 'He's confusing without trying.

Annabeth nodded. That's right.Alexander conquered Egypt.After he died, his general Ptolemy took over. He wanted the Egyptians to accept him as their pharaoh, so he mashed the Egyptian gods and the Greek gods together and made up new ones. Sounds messy, Sadie said. I prefer my gods unmashed.

The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.

The struggle, so violent in the early days of science, between the views of Ptolemy and Copernicus would then be quite meaningless. Either CS [coordinate system] could be used with equal justification. The two sentences, "the Sun is at rest and the Earth moves," or "the Sun moves and the Earth is at rest," would simply mean two different conventions concerning two different CS.

Her co-monarch, Ptolemy XV Caesar, was the son whom she claimed, almost certainly truthfully, to have had by Julius Caesar.

The younger children, the twins Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene, and Ptolemy Philadelphus, were spared.

Alexandrian courtiers took the incestuous royal marriage of Ptolemy Philadelphus ('Sibling-Loving') in their stride.

Ptolemy said, "Mortal though I be, yea, ephemeral, if but a moment I gaze up at night's starry domain of heaven, then no longer on earth I stand: I touch the Creator and my lively spirit drinketh immortality.

Ptolemy was also accompanied by his sister-wife Arsinoe, and she paraded before the army with her brother-husband.

More than any previous work, Galileo's Dialogue showed that if Copernicus wasn't right on every detail of the working of the solar system, Aristotle and Ptolemy were both very clearly wrong. The first printing sold out almost at once.

It was shortly after arriving in Alexandria that Strato of Lampsacus became King Ptolemy's principal adviser on all matters intellectual and scientific. Over the next several years, he would use that position to create the ancient world's most important research center, Alexandria's Mouseion, or Museum. Just as Alexandria was Aristotle's city, so its Museum would be the centrifuge for spreading Aristotle's methods and ideas across the ancient world.

Galileo soon saw it was easier to explain phenomena like tides if you assumed the earth was not stationary, as Aristotle and Ptolemy had taught, but actually in motion.

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While Egyptian speakers learned Greek, it was rare that anyone ventured in the opposite direction. To the punishing study of Egyptian, however, Cleopatra applied herself. She was allegedly the first and only Ptolemy to bother to learn the language of the 7 million people over whom she ruled.

Such labor follows in the steps of Freud, who has become the Ptolemy of psychology, for now, with him, anyone can explain human phenomena, raising epicycles upon epicycles...

Ptolomeo tenía razón después de todo: el universo gira en torno del centro de la Tierra. ¡Pero lo mismo puede decirse de cualquier otro punto del universo!

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.

To the punishing study of Egyptian, however, Cleopatra applied herself. She was allegedly the first and only Ptolemy to bother to learn the language of the 7 million people over whom she ruled.

For every scientist who dedicates his life to helping humanity, there are ten thousand fools who are just as willing to destroy. —PTOLEMY, Zenith Archives

But before the grandeur and intricacy of Nature, he was, like Ptolemy and Kepler, exhilarated as well as disarmingly modest. Just before his death he wrote: "I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy, playing on the seashore, and diverting myself, in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Mortal as I am," wrote Ptolemy, "I know that I am born for a day, but when I follow the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth; I ascend to Zeus himself to feast me on ambrosia, the food of the gods." He

I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written on this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south.