Ptolemy

How did Ptolemy try to build and unite the new Greek and Egyptian Kingdom? To build and unite the new Greek and Egyptian kingdom, Ptolemy wanted to make his kingdom the center of the new civilization. He started by kidnapping Alexander’s body and building the city of Alexandria, bringing in Greek institutions such as banking systems specifically the use of coins for tax collection. Alexandria which would become one of the largest cities of the ancient world required some basics such as water and

1 Ptolemy used the theorem as an aid to creating his table of chords, a trigonometric table that he applied to astronomy. Claudius Ptolemy born around 90 ce in Egypt was a well-known astronomer, mathematician, astrologer and mathematician. Although much was of his life was lost to history, Ptolemy was famous for his ground breaking work The Almagest. In his lifetime, Ptolemy explored a motley array of disciplines, ranging from astronomy

The Constellation I chose is Lupus, also called „the Wolf“. It’s located in the southern sky and was one of the 48 constellations, which were listed by Ptolemy, a second century astronomer. Previously it was an asterism associated with its neighbour constellation Centaurus, but belongs to the now 88 official constellations. It has nine main stars, 41 Bayer stars and five stars with planets. Lupus is surrounded by six different constellations: Hydra, Scorpius, Norma, Circinus, Libra and Centaurus

chosen to write about Pegasus as my favorite constellation as it is one of the first I ever learned about and really enjoy the story behind it. Pegasus is located in the northern sky and is named after the winged horse 'Pegasus' from Greek Mythology. Ptolemy, a 2nd century astronomer listed Pegasus as one of the 48 constellations of that time and Pegasus remains as one of the 88 constellations today. Pegasus's creation myth comes from Greek Mythology. Pegasus was a pure white winged stallion horse-god

Earth. But, as we know today, his theory was incorrect. Some other Greek philosophers attempted to measure the distance to the moon and even tried to find the size of the universe! They found the universe to be finite. On the other and, Claudius Ptolemy believed that the heavens (skies) were not made of rocks, metal, or other Earthy materials, but that they were made of

I chose the Orion constellation because after doing some research, I found that the history of this constellation was very interesting. The Orion constellation looks like a man holding a weapon and a dead lion, so it was named after a hunter in Greek mythology. The Orion is located on the celestial equator and it consists of seven stars known as Betelgeuse, Rigel, Bellatrix, Mintaka, Alnilam, Alnitak, and Saiph, but it's brightest stars are Rigel and Betelgeuse. This constellation is most visible

The Pegasus constellation is located in the northern sky and can be seen at the end of summer and throughout autumn if the person is situated within the upper half of the equator. The 51 Pegasi (one of the stars within this constellation) is the first Sun-like star to have a planet orbiting around it. It's my favourite constellation because of it's mythological origins and its simplistic geometric shape. The name "Pegasus" comes from the white winged horse that acted as a sire for Poseidon in Greek

He was the first person whose systematic use of trigonometry has documentary evidence, which is presented from Ptolemy and Theon of Alexandria. For example, he is responsible for the division of a circle into 360 degrees, the creation of one of the first trigonometric tables for solving triangles, and the precepts of trigonometry. The table showed how each degree

form the eastern wing you can see the remnants of a supernova if you look with binoculars. Cygnus is the 16th largest constellation and can be found in the fourth quadrant of the northern hemisphere. Cygnus was discovered by Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century. It is associated with

My favourite constellation is Apus. Apus is also known as 'The Bird of Paradise'. It is called this as the Greek, who named the costellation, knew the bird of paradise to have no feet. By looking up at Apus, you can see the body figure but no feet. Apus also translates into 'no feet' in Greek. I chose this constellation because I am intrigued at why the bird of paradise, so to speak, has no legs and why this is so great. Apus intrigues my sense of curiosity as to it's origin and why it is called