Ptolemy

the Pharaohs set up in Egypt by Alexander the Great. By descent, she was a Macedonian Princess. After she died, Egypt became the Roman province of Aegyptus. At 18 years old, her father, who was king, died. She and her brother 12 year old brother, Ptolemy, became the leaders of Egypt. She was queen and her brother was king. Her reign was ended by a group of often in attendance at the court of a king or other royal personage., led by the eunuch,a castrated man, especially one formerly employed by…

Cleopatra was suspected to have been carrying his child (Samson 1985:114). Despite them not marrying, Cleopatra had remained loyal and had stayed with Caesar’s forces, which led to Caesar setting Cleopatra back on her throne with her younger half-brother Ptolemy XIV instead of annexing Egypt to Rome as the Alexandrians feared (Samson…

didn’t want to share the throne with Ptolemy XIII”(Cleopatra XII”). They both wanted to rule. They both decided to plan against each other(“Cleopatra VII”). Without one of them in the way he/she could rule. The family betrayed their own flesh and blood to get what they want. Cleopatra was the bigger person and agreed to rule with her brother but her brother got more power than she did since he was the…

What is the solar system? The solar system is the what we call home, it is the collection of the eight planets and their moons. These celestial objects orbit around the sun, although this was not always the case back in 140 AD Claudius Ptolemy contemplated with the idea or theory of a geocentric universe. The literal definition of geocentrism is having the earth as the center of the universe and the at the other celestial objects orbiting the earth. Theses celestial objects are called planets.…

United Kingdom. During her time as queen, she had to make a lot of tough decisions. Queen Victoria had to make decisions on what to do when wars came about. She didn't know if she entered her country in these wars if they would benefit from it or if it would cause them greater problems. “When Victoria was crowned queen the British people had lost respect for the throne” (Sack). But in the end Queen Victoria proved herself hard-working and had the people's best interest at heart and gained their…

In the year 51 B.C. Ptolemy XII named Cleopatra VII, who was his 18 year old daughter, as his co regent before his death. It was his desire that Cleopatra rule Egypt with his son Ptolemy XIII, who was only 10 years old. The consuetudinary law dictated that Cleopatra also became Ptolemy XIII’s wife. As the male, it was inferred that Ptolemy be the chief ruler. Considering his age, Ptolemy was also appointed three advisors who were to assist him in leading his nation. However, Cleopatra was…

to Hipparchus, Ptolemy innovated upon Hipparchus’ method by inscribing regular polygons inside a circle and calculating the resulting chords from each polygon. By combining this with a method to find the chord subtended by half the arc of a known chord, Ptolemy calculated chord lengths accurate to six decimal places [2]. Ptolemy and his predecessors already knew about the Pythagorean identity, sin^2⁡x+cos^2⁡x=1 expressed as chords of a circle instead of our modern notation. Ptolemy also knew…

Cleopatra, an Egyptian queen. She was married to her brother Ptolemy XIII, an Egyptian King. An Egyptian rule a queen always has to be lead by a king. There are many records of how beautiful of a woman Cleopatra's was and how her beauty drew in Julius Caesar. Before Julius Caesar met Cleopatra, he already had been married twice, Pompeia whom he divorced because of scandal with other men, and Calpurnia whom he was still married to when he met Cleopatra. Julius Caesar and Cleopatra met when Julius…

Her name is dripped with legend, power and seduction. She became the last in a dynasty of Macedonian rulers founded by Ptolemy and would use her powers of beauty and charm to seduce military leaders. Cleopatra, is quite known in popular culture as this divining figure, using her brains and beauty to rule in her way, portrayed by beauty icons in films and plays such as Elizabeth Taylor and Claudette Colbert. Everyone knows her legend but very few actually understand her true importance as a…

determined to cut the Muslims out of the his was for possible trades. However, during this time Columbus had begun embracing the ideas of Ptolemy’s and the estimates he had drawn up for the size of the world. In source 4 From Ptolemy’s Geography, Ptolemy mentions that the work and calculations that he has produced are definitely accurate to a certain extent by implying, “...on account of their great size, we have as yet no knowledge; with regard to other parts we…