Ptolemaeus

American  

[tol-uh-mey-uhs] / ˌtɒl əˈmeɪ əs /

noun

1. a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 90 miles (144 km) in diameter.

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Ptolemaeus British  

/ ˌtɒlɪˈmiːəs /

noun

1. a crater in the SE quadrant of the moon, about 140 kilometres (90 miles) in diameter

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Example Sentences

A Latin inscription next to him reads “In this mountain range, King Ptolemaeus uses a world-compass and through astrology, by longitudes and by latitudes, he constructed a mappa mundi and a cosmography.”

From Los Angeles Times

Ptolemaeus’s epochal influence has had the effect of making ancient astronomy seem, to us, a lot less diverse than it was.

From Literature

This was unfortunate not only because Ptolemaeus’s system was wrong, but because it seemed to endorse a measurement of the earth’s circumference of 18,000 miles—a significant underestimate.

From Literature

Modern popular astrology runs directly back to Claudius Ptolemaeus, whom we call Ptolemy, although he was unrelated to the kings of the same name.

From Literature

It will be noted that Irenaeus, in his controversy with Ptolemaeus, makes no mention of the fourth Gospel, but falls back on a tradition.

From Project Gutenberg