Ptolemy I Painting

This is one of a series about Astronomers and explores the apparent chaos of the universe and its inherent structure. Claudius Ptolemy (c. AD 90 – c. 168) was a Greco-Roman (a Roman citizen with a Roman first name and a Greek last name) astronomer, mathematician and geographer who lived in Alexandria, Egypt. He wrote the "Almagest", an important treatise considered prior to the Reanissance the most important text on astronomy. It is white on the sides and can be hung without a frame.