write some words about famous geographer ptolemy
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Ptolemy's fame as a geographer is hardly less than his fame as an astronomer. By his own admission, Ptolemy did not attempt to collect and sift all the geographical data on which his maps were based. ... Instead, he based them on the maps and writings of Marinus of Tyre (c.
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Claudius Ptolemy was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer and astrologer who wrote several scientific treatises, three of which were of importance to later Byzantine, Islamic and Western European science.
Born: 100 AD, Alexandria, Egypt
Died: Alexandria, Egypt
Nationality: Roman
Full name: Claudius Ptolemy
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