Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Ptolemy
Born: 100
Died: 160 (aged 60)
Bio: Claudius Ptolemy was a Greco-Egyptian writer, known as a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology.
Known for:
- Almagest
- Geography (150 AD)
- Tetrabiblos
- Die Harmonielehre des Klaudios Ptolemaios
Ptolemy Quotes