Examples of 'ptolemaic' in a sentence
Meaning of "ptolemaic"
relating to or characteristic of the Ptolemaic dynasty, which ruled Egypt from 305 to 30 BC. Often used to describe something ancient or outdated
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- Of or pertaining to the Ptolemy dynasty of pharaohs, the Ptolemies, rulers of Hellenistic Egypt.
- Of or pertaining to the astronomer Claudius Ptolemy.
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Because the ptolemaic picture was static.
Ptolemaic theory of the solar system.
The idea being that the ptolemaic system was pretty complicated.
Ptolemaic astronomy was a scientific theory.
People settled here again in Ptolemaic times.
Ancient ptolemaic dynasty style.
Was thought to be her husband until the Ptolemaic.
Ptolemaic physics was very complex.
The islands then passed under Ptolemaic domination.
Ptolemaic graphs are graphs that are both chordal and distance hereditary.
A space in which it holds is called Ptolemaic.
Ptolemaic family tree.
In astronomy he was one of the early reformers of Ptolemaic views.
Ptolemaic epicycles are perhaps the most famous example of the dangers of the mathematical approach.
Cleopatra was the last ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty.
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He is the earliest Ptolemaic governor to be attested epigraphically.
It continued to be employed to the end of the Ptolemaic period.
Ptolemaic necropolis for poor discovered in Alexandria.
A red granite sculpture of a Ptolemaic queen.
The Ptolemaic kingdom was at the height of its power.
The celestial globe is inspired by the Ptolemaic system.
The Ptolemaic front line was four kilometers wide.
It involved more epicycles than the Ptolemaic system.
Ptolemaic Egypt was one of the greatest powers of that time.
And so to make that happen in a Ptolemaic or.
She was the first Ptolemaic queen to rule without her husband.
Remained active until well into the Ptolemaic.
She was the first Ptolemaic queen to bear a child by her brother.
It was also dedicated to the ancestors of the Ptolemaic pharaoh.
Recent data confirm what Ptolemaic astronomers had suggested millennia ago.
This victory marked the zenith of the Ptolemaic power.
She was the first Ptolemaic queen to exercise all the power alone.
These different levels of fortune are represented by the Ptolemaic structure.
Corinth did not strike Ptolemaic coinage during its brief subordination to the kingdom.
The burial chamber had been reused in the Ptolemaic period.
The Ptolemaic military was filled with diverse peoples from across their territories.
This is supported by later Ptolemaic c.
The Ptolemaic model was believed by many very smart people for many centuries.
In his university lectures he taught only the Ptolemaic system.
The geocentric Ptolemaic conception of the universe was replaced by the heliocentric system of Copernicus.
In coin making process there were similarities with the Ptolemaic coinage.
A statue of a Ptolemaic queen which must have been slightly larger than life size.
This is all likely due to inbreeding within the Ptolemaic dynasty.
This marked the beginning of the Ptolemaic dynasty which spanned three centuries.
Agathocles through his father was a distant relation of the Ptolemaic dynasty.
The Ptolemaic temples go further to include information of all kinds taken from temple libraries.
Canopic chests fell out of use during the Ptolemaic period.
This process began in the Ptolemaic period and was completed during the Roman period.
It seems that the tradition continued during the Ptolemaic period.
The trouble is that Ptolemaic astronomy does fit experiments very well if applied quite phenomenologically.
