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In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
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
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