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Ptolemy (c. 85-c. 165), the astronomer, the cartographer, the geographer (edit)

Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy (explain)
Main occupations: "astrologer" (explain)

"astronomer" (explain)

"Geographer" (explain)

"mathematician" (explain)

Gender: "male" (explain)
Legal name: unknown (specify)
Place of birth: "Egypt" (explain)
Date of birth: "90 AD" (explain)
Date of death: "165 AD" (explain)
Marital status: unknown (add a spouse) (was unmarried at death)
Tell me what you know about Claudius Ptolemy (, Klaudios Ptolemaios; AD 90 – AD 168), the Roman citizen of Egypt who wrote in Greek.
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Ptolemy was an astrologer, an astronomer, and a geographer. He was born in Egypt and wrote in Greek.
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In fact there is no evidence that Ptolemy was ever anywhere other than Alexandria. His name, Claudius Ptolemy, is of course a mixture of the Greek Egyptian 'Ptolemy' and the Roman ...
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Ptolemy.html
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Claudius Ptolamaeus or Ptolemy, facts reveal an ancient Roman astronomer who lived in Egypt. Ptolemy Almagest was the astronomical text used for centuries in ...
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Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus), fl. 2d cent. AD, celebrated Greco-Egyptian mathematician, astronomer, and geographer. He made his observations in...
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The name Claudius is a Roman nomen; the fact that Ptolemy bore it indicates he lived under the Roman rule of Egypt with the privileges and political rights of Roman citizenship.
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