The Roman geographer Ptolemy places them in the Southern uplands ... This was the excuse used by the Roman Emperor Claudius to conquer southern Britain in 43 AD. The Catuvellauni were one of ...

Astrology and astronomy – the words sound so similar. So why do you get such a stink-eye from your friend the astronomer when ...

From the discovery of gravity to the first mission to defend Earth from an asteroid, here are the most important physics ...

Nonetheless, Claudius Ptolemy's belief that Earth was the center of the universe later took root and dominated scientific thought for more than a millennium. Then came Nicolaus Copernicus ...

In 2016, another of the six originals sold for $467,000. Also known as the "Cosmographia," "Geographia" or simply "The Geography," this book written by the Greco-Roman Claudius Ptolemy is considered ...

To take just one example, the great astronomer of antiquity Claudius Ptolemy is said to have done his research not by observing the night sky, but in the library at Alexandria, appropriating the data ...

It is a sandstone structure which was erected in front of the actual temple building before or during the reign of the Roman Emperor Claudius (41-54 AD ... The cartouches of Ptolemy VI on the ...

Claudius Claussøn Swart), (born 14 September 1388), was a Danish geographer sometimes considered to be the first Nordic cartographer. [1] [2] Geography by Ptolemy, Latin manuscript of the early 15th ...

Ptolemy Dean's new book, 'Streetscapes: Navigating Historic English Towns'. examines the streetscapes of our historic towns and marvels at what we can easily take for granted. Its author encourages us ...