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The three-volume Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology provides an excellent resource for identifying significant figures mentioned by ancient Roman and Greek writers. A classic work of nineteenth-century lexicography, it spans the fields of mathematics, architecture, philosophy, history, medicine, the arts, and more. Gleaning knowledge from distinguished authorities and scholars...

the plan we intend to adopt in this article. Ptolemy stands before us in two distinct points of view: as a mathematician and astronomer; and as a geographer. There must of course be a separate treatment of these two characters. As an astronomer, it must be said that the history of the science, for a long train of centuries, presents nothing but comments on his writings: to treat the history of the latter would be so far to write that of astronomy itself. We shall, therefore, confine ourselves to
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