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    Ptolemy was the most notable ancient astronomer in Roman Alexandria who lived in Egypt in the 2nd century AD. Along with astronomy, he was also a mathematician, geographer, and astrologer. Ptolemy had a mixed cultural background as an Egyptian who lived in Egypt but wrote in Greek and had a Roman name, which was appropriate for his broad intellectual interests where he studied and consolidated Greek knowledge about the cosmos, known as the Ptolemaic universe.

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    Ptolemy was the most notable ancient astronomer in Roman Alexandria who lived in Egypt in the 2nd century AD. Along with astronomy, he was also a mathematician, geographer, and astrologer. Ptolemy had a mixed cultural background as an Egyptian who lived in Egypt but wrote in Greek and had a Roman name, which was appropriate for his broad intellectual interests where he studied and consolidated Greek knowledge about the cosmos, known as the Ptolemaic universe.

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    Ptolemy was the most notable ancient astronomer in Roman Alexandria who lived in Egypt in the 2nd century AD. Along with astronomy, he was also a mathematician, geographer, and astrologer. Ptolemy had a mixed cultural background as an Egyptian who lived in Egypt but wrote in Greek and had a Roman name, which was appropriate for his broad intellectual interests where he studied and consolidated Greek knowledge about the cosmos, known as the Ptolemaic universe.

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    The only notable ancient astronomer in Roman

    Alexandria was Ptolemy. Along with being an


    astronomer, Ptolemy was also a mathematician, a
    geographer, and an astrologer. He had a mixed-up
    cultural background, which was appropriate for his
    broad and adaptable intellectual interests. Ptolemy was
    an Egyptian who lived in Egypt, wrote his theories in
    Greek, and had a first name that indicated he was a
    Roman citizen: Claudius. The Roman emperor
    presumably gave Ptolemy's ancestor the name as a gift.
    Ptolemy studied, applied, and consolidated Greek
    knowledge and facts about the known Cosmos; this is
    known as the Ptolemy view of the universe or
    Ptolemaic universe

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