Claudius Ptolemy, a Greco-Roman astronomer, found solace in the stars. He believed human life was brief but observing the cosmos offered a way to rise above mortality. His work, The Almagest, ...

Researchers have deciphered an ancient manuscript that they think Claudius Ptolemy, an Egyptian mathematician and astronomer of Greek descent, penned during the first century A.D. Written in Greek on ...

SCREF copy Purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds. The Greco-Roman mathematician Claudius Ptolemy is one of the most significant figures in the history of science. He is remembered today for his astronomy, ...

In a sunlit gallery of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Italy, astronomer Brad Schaefer came face to face with an ancient statue known as the Farnese Atlas. For centuries, the 7-foot marble figure ...

Ground-breaking books by Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo showed what our cosmos truly looked like, inspiring artists and scientists for centuries afterwards ...