[DOC] [TLE] Ptolemy - Wikipedia [PAR] Claudius Ptolemy was a Greco-Egyptian writer, known as a mathematician, 
astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek 
Anthology. He lived in the city of Alexandria in the Roman province of Egypt, 
wrote in Koine Greek, ... The second is the Geography, which is a thorough 
discussion of the... [DOC] [TLE] Ptolemy - Britannica.com [PAR] Feb 22, 2016 ... Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer ... His first major 
astronomical work, the Almagest, was completed about 150 ce and contains ... 
the Almagest (from a hybrid of Arabic and Greek, the greatest) was called .... 
Ptolemy's Guide to Geography, most of them accompanied by maps, attest to... [DOC] [TLE] Notable Cartographers and Their Maps ~ GIS Lounge [PAR] Jun 10, 2012 ... Cartography is the art and science of map making. ... Ptolemy wrote his 
Geographia around the year 150 AD which compiled existing ... locations on 
earth based on astronomical observations from those areas. ... The world map 
was an accompaniment to his three-volume treatise entitled Geography. [DOC] [TLE] Ptolemy facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ... [PAR] (b. ca.a.d. 100; d. ca.a.d. 170). mathematical sciences, especially astronomy. ... 
The prime meridian of the Geography is not Alexandria, as is promised in the 
Almagest, but ... of the atmosphere of the earth), whereas in the Optics Ptolemy 
gives a purely .... Greek astronomy, then, as Ptolemy found it, had evolved a 
geometric... [DOC] [TLE] Check and uncheck as needed to select sections to print. Then ... [PAR] Notable are the Greek studies of the Nile River in Egypt, which described its 
annual ... The astronomer Hipparchus (2d century B.C.) developed a location 
system of lines on the ... Strabo (c.63 B.C.A.D. 21) wrote Geography, a 17-
volume work that ... His 8-volume Guide to Geography consisted of a list of all 
known places... [DOC] [TLE] Popular Science Monthly/Volume 16/February 1880/Maps and Map ... [PAR] Mar 31, 2016 ... MAPS AND MAP-MAKING BEFORE MERCATOR .... PSM V16 D508 Map of 
ptolemy 150 ad.jpg. Fig. 4.Ptolemy's Map, a. d. 150. [DOC] [TLE] The most valuable scientific documents of all-time: top 10 - Gizmag [PAR] Oct 13, 2016 ... The North American Indian was produced in 40 volumes between ... Also failing 
the "intent" criteria is the Silesian parcel-gilt statuette of the Greek God Chronos ... 
school" of Italian mapmakers active from the 1540s to 1570s, and as such ... 
Alexandria (Egypt) in AD 150, based on a now-lost atlas by Marinus... [DOC] [TLE] Images of early maps on the web: 3. Themes [PAR] 'Astronomy - Star Atlases, Charts, and Maps' (high res. images of 45 entire ... 'An 
illustrated guide to space maps' (medium res. images and brief notes ... 'Aleph': 
Geographical Fun Atlas (Library of Congress, Geography & Map Division - high 
res. .... 150-220 A.D. in the Rmisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz)... [DOC] [TLE] History of geography - Topics [PAR] 'Geography' derives from the Greek   geographia, a literal ... such as 
cartography (or map-making) prior to the use of the term geography. Egypt ... 
many of the astronomical and mathematical rules that would allow geography to 
be ... AD 24). Strabo's seventeen volume work of geography is almost completely
... [DOC] [TLE] THE WEST Encounters and Transformations Volume One [PAR] Having mastered agriculture and herding by 3500 B.C.E., Egyptians saw the ..... 
earth and sky were interrelated, Babylonian religion fostered astronomy and ... 
civilization, an intricate network of political, commercial, and cultural ties .... D. 
early form of Greek writing. 8. Which statement does not describe the ...... Page 
150... [DOC] [TLE] The History of Cartography, Volume 2, Book 1 - University of ... [PAR] earlier than A.D. 1199-1200, the date of a Jain bas-relief representation in ..... 
Geography of the Puranas (New

Question: In about 150 A.D. this Greek astronomer in Egypt published "Geography", an 8-volume guide to mapmaking
Answer: Ptolemy