Claudius Ptolemy, was well known as a mathematician, astronomer, and geographer. Little information is known about details of his life to this point. No one exactly knows where he was born, but Egypt is a good assumption, nor where he died. One reason why Egypt is believed to be his birthplace is due to his name Ptolemy, an Egyptian name. While Claudius is a Roman name, this indicates he lived under the Roman rule of Egypt with the privileges and political rights of Roman Citizenship.Ptolemy was the last great representative of the Greek Astronomy and, according to tradition, developed its activity of observer in the Temple of Serapis at Canopus near Alexandria. His main and most famous work that influenced European and Arabic astronomy up
