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Euclid, having opened a school of mathematics at Alexandria, was asked by King Ptolemy whether he could not explain his art to him in a more compendious manner. “Sir,” said the…Brewer's: Movable
The first movable. Sir Thomas Browne (Religio Medici, p. 56, 27) uses the phrase, “Beyond the first movable,” meaning outside the material creation. According to Ptolemy the “primum mobile…Brewer's: Happy Arabia
A mistranslation of the Latin Arabia felix, which means simply on the right hand —i.e. to the right hand of Al-Shan (Syria). It was Ptolemy who was the author of the threefold division…Brewer's: Empyrean
According to Ptolemy, there are five heavens, the last of which is pure elemental fire and the seat of deity; this fifth heaven is called the empyrean (from the Greek en-pur, in fire). (…Brewer's: Logan
or Rocking Stones, for which Corn wall is famous. Pliny tells us of a rock near Harpasa which might be moved with a finger. Ptolemy says the Gygonian rock might be stirred with a stalk of…Brewer's: Sabra
Daughter of Ptolemy, King of Egypt, rescued by St. George from the fangs of the giant, and ultimately married to her deliverer. She is represented as pure in mind, saintly in character, a…Brewer's: Yemen
Arabia Felix. Felix is a mistranslation by Ptolemy of Yemen, which means to the “right” —i.e. of Mecca. (See Stony Arabia.) Beautiful are the maids that glide On summer-eves through Yemen'…Brewer's: Berenice
(4 syl.). The sister-wife of Ptolemy III., who vowed to sacrifice her hair to the gods, if her husband returned home the vanquisher of Asia. She suspended her hair in the temple of the war…Brewer's: Crystalline
(3 syl.). The Crystalline sphere. According to Ptolemy, between the “primum mobile” and the firmament or sphere of the fixed stars comes the crystalline sphere, which oscillates or has a…Brewer's: Illustrious
(The). Albert V., Duke and second Emperor of Austria (1398-1439). Nicomedes II. Epiphanes (149-191). Ptolemy V. Epiphanes (210, 205-181 B.C.). Jam-sheid (Jam the Illustrious, nephew of Tah…Trending
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