# Ptolemy

- id: ptolemy
- name in original script: Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος
- dates: c. 100–170
- roles: author

Alexandrian astronomer whose Mathematike Syntaxis became, through its Arabic name, the Almagest. His mathematical model of the heavens held for fourteen hundred years.

## Works in the atlas

- Almagest (almagest)

## Sources

- Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus project (2023). Work entries for the Arabic and Latin Almagest translations.