Claudius Ptolemy

BACKGROUND

• Born in Alexandria, Egypt
• No real records of his family.
• Didn't have the best teachers, so he spent a lot of time in libraries.

WORKS

• The Ptolemaic system that states that Earth is stationary and at the center of the universe.
• Famous for work astronomy.

FAMOUS QUOTES

• "It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the moon."
• "I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day, but when I search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, me feet no longer touch the earth, but side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of ambrosia, the food of the Gods."

OTHER MATHEMATICIANS

• Aryabhata (476- 550)
• Archimedes (287 B.C.-212)

OTHER DISCOVERIES

• Clevenger's New York Practice.