Ptolemaeus, Claudius

Greek astronomer, mathematician and naturalist. * Ptolemais (upper Egypt) about 100 A.D., † supposable Canopus (near Alexandria) about 160 A.D..

The equidistant conical projection with one standard parallel which he documented in a »instruction to construct graticules« traces back to him.

  
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