The universe follows predictable rules, behaving classically according to Einstein’s theory of general relativity. So, what ...

The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible,” Albert Einstein once pondered. But even as ...

Simplified reconstruction of Ptolemy's nine-ringed astronomical instrument called "Meteoroscope," as described in the hidden manuscript.

Most notable, this revealed Ptolemy’s treatise on the Meteoroscope, which is an instrument for measuring the position, length, and direction of the apparent path of a shooting star.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the last of the great Greek astronomers of antiquity, Ptolemy, and his influence on ancient and medieval astronomy. Show more Melvyn Bragg and his guests ...

Hundreds of years after the first try, we can finally read a Ptolemy text The original writing was hidden in part by a 19th-century attempt to read it.

The large new experiment would test the theory that predicts that some 330 Big Bang neutrinos per cubic centimeter exist throughout the universe. The enlarged PTOLEMY would count the number of ...

From Ptolemy to GPS, the Brief History of Maps We now have the whole world in our hands, but how did we get here?

A map created by Greek astronomer and cartographer Claudius Ptolemy, from around 140 A.D., is considered to be the oldest surviving representation of Ireland. Included among his treatise ...

IT is somewhat strange that in the article on Ptolemy in the “Penny Cyclopædia,” he is spoken of only as a geographer. His fame is undoubtedly built upon his two great works on astronomy and ...

JUST forty years ago the late Prof. Peters, of Clinton, New York, and Mr. Knobel began independently, and without either of them knowing of the other's work, to investigate the Catalogue of Stars ...