Claudius Ptolemy was an Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine, Islamic, and Western European science. Wikipedia
Born: Roman Egypt, Egypt
Died: Alexandria, Egypt
Full name: Claudius Ptolemy
Influenced: Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Dante Alighieri, and more
Nationality: Egyptian and Roman
Fields: Astronomy, Geography, Astrology, Optics
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