या खगोलविदीय टॉल्मी से संबंधित

Adjective:

टॉलैमी वंश का (यह वंश मिस्‍त्र में सिकंदर महान की मृत्‍यु के उपरांत क्लियोपत्रा के समय तक राज्‍य करता रहा), टॉलैमी का (टोलैमी सिंकदर महान के समय का प्रसिद्ध गणित-ज्‍योति‍षी था),

ptolemaic's Usage Examples:

If he said so, he was speaking of the Ptolemaic cosmogony as known to him through the Arabs, and his vaunt was a humorous proof of his scientific instinct.

They date from the Persian rule down to the Ptolemaic period and are evidently modelled by Greek workmen.

New Paphos became the administrative capital of the whole island in Ptolemaic and Roman days, as well as the head of one of the four Roman districts; it was also a flourishing commercial city in the time of Strabo, and famous for its oil, and for "diamonds" of medicinal power.

After the foundation of New Paphos and the extinction of the Cinyrad and Ptolemaic dynasties, the importance of the Old Town declined rapidly.

Paphos was believed to have been founded either by the Arcadian Agapenor, returning from the Trojan War (c. 1180 B.C.), or by his reputed contemporary Cinyras, whose clan retained royal privileges down to the Ptolemaic conquest of Cyprus in 295 B.C., and held the Paphian priesthood till the Roman occupation in 58 B.C. The town certainly dates back to the close of the Mycenaean Bronze age, and had a king Eteandros among the allies of Assur-bani-pal of Assyria in 668 B.C.'

Epiphanes succeeded to the Egyptian throne, and Antiochus concluded a secret pact with Philip of Macedonia for the partition of the Ptolemaic possessions.

It had been continuously in Ptolemaic occupation, but the house of Seleucus maintained its claim.

Nearly in the centre of the town is the Ptolemaic and Roman temple of the ram-headed Khnum, almost buried in rubbish and houses.

23-40), left no issue.2 See Mahaffy, The Empire of the Ptolemies (1895) and Egypt under the Ptolemaic Dynasty (1899); Strack, Die Dynastie der Ptolemcier (1897); Bouche-Leclercq, Histoire des Lagides (1904, 1907); Meyer, Das Heerwesen der Ptolemder and Reimer (Leipzig, 1900).

With the earth as centre such a sphere is known as Ptolemaic; with the sun as centre, as Copernican.

ptolemaic's Meaning':

of or relating to the astronomer Ptolemy

Synonyms:

geocentric,

Antonyms:

heliocentric, Copernican,