“It’s one of the most beautiful maps to have survived from the Renaissance ... One was the 1522 edition of the Geography of Claudius Ptolemy, the other a collection of historical narratives ...

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician ... Much of medieval astronomy and geography were built on his ideas: his world map, published as part of his treatise Geography in the 2nd century ...

the art and science of representing the Earth on maps, has been central to the understanding and exploration of the world since ancient times. The great cartographers, such as Claudius Ptolemy ...

Claudius Ptolemy was a significant Egyptian-Greek astronomer ... Ptolemy was the first to use longitudinal and latitudinal ...

Disfigured, awkward and clumsy, Claudius (10 BC – 54 AD / Reigned 41 – 54 AD) was the black sheep of his family and an unlikely emperor. Once in place, he was fairly successful, but his poor ...

Ptolemy Dean's new book, 'Streetscapes ... historic town and the streetscape seems to draw you into the centre without the need to refer to a map. The layout and texture of its streets make natural ...

Galileo lived at a time when the centuries-old Almagest of the Egyptian scholar Claudius Ptolemy, written in 139AD, was still being used by the Church as “evidence” and “confirmation” for ...

It's one thing to not be able to check Instagram or scroll through TikTok; it's quite another to be somewhere unfamiliar with no way to load Google Maps. As it happens, however, Google offers a ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Physics experiments have changed the world irrevocably, altering our reality and enabling us to ...

Building on the existing Guides feature, Maps in iOS 18 lets you save places with a quick tap of the + button on their Maps listing. Saved places are accessible from the new Library menu ...

A natal chart maps the heavens at the exact time of your birth. A reading of this chart analyzes your basic character along with your talents and the challenges you’ll face. This reading occurs ...