How to pronounce “ptolemy” in English

They're on the equator on the Congo-Uganda border, and they're the source of the Nile.Ptolemy said a long time ago, the Nile came from snowy mountains on the equator.And the weather is so bad there that nobody hardly knew they existed, and we actually climbed about all the peaks in

No telescopes. And then this picture of Ptolemy in Alexandria-- looks like he has a telescope.But we should all remember that Ptolemy was just looking through a tube and mapping out the positions of stars and that people started coming upwith theories for how the heavens worked at about that time.

His look is certainly not youthful and happy.Her son is co-ruler with her as Ptolemy the 15th.

That's one of the US instruments from Alan Stern and SWRI.The Philae Lander, COSAC and Ptolemy, two instruments on it, discovered complex carbon chains as well.

That was clearly one of the earliest astronomy observatories.No telescopes. And then this picture of Ptolemy in Alexandria-- looks like he has a telescope.But we should all remember that Ptolemy was just looking through a tube and mapping out the positions of stars and that people started coming up

not just the 300 years of the British period about which people talk so much, but in fact, 2,200 years of historyof that region, what was happening, why, how come Ptolemy, far away in the edge of Europe,would be interested in the trade going on in that region.

And since a lot of you are engineers, I should mention that this isn't just about philosophy.The Translation Movement also renders many works of science, and even engineering, into Arabic, so you have works by Ptolemy, Euclid,and other mathematicians who are translated into Arabic.