"Claudius Ptolemseus was "le plus ceélèbre, sans contredit, mais non le plus véritablement grand astronome de toute l'antiquité." [the most famous, without a doubt, but not the truly greatest astronomer of all antiquity] Thus writes Delambre in the Biographie Universelle (vol. 36... 1823)."
January 1, 1970
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