托勒密

To avoid the new thinking of Copernicus that the sun is the center and the earth moves around it once a year and turns on itself once a day, to keep the old thinking of Ptolemy, earth at the center, you need this complicated system of interlocking spheres and gears.

为了排除哥白尼的新理论，也就是：太阳的宇宙中心，地球每年绕日公转一周每天自转一周，并维护托勒密旧学说也就是：以地球为中心，你需要这套球体与齿轮纠缠的复杂系统。

The Imago Mundi of Pierre d' Ailly was a comprehensive world geography composed around the year 1410, before Ptolemy's Geography had been rediscovered by Western Europe

皮埃尔·德·阿伊利的《世界的形象》是一部综合性的世界地理学，写成于西欧重新发现托勒密地理学以前，时间在1410年左右。

Records such as the Almagest show he had a sophisticated scheme for predicting both lunar and solar eclipses.

像《天文学大成》（公元二世纪时托勒密作的天文学数学名著

The exact date of the sculptor is not known. However, scholars assume that it was made sometimes after 150 A.D. because of the representation of the vernal equinox on the globe, which is similar to that in Ptolemy's Almagest.

我们并不知道这座雕像确切完工的时间，但是学者们推估它应该是西元150年之后的作品，因为Atlas肩上的地球仪呈现出已知春分的天文学知识；而托勒密(生卒年约为85-165 AD)的天文学的书Almagest就曾提到此点。

Ptolemy Mennus was King of the Itureans (whose kingdom embraced the Lebanon and plain of Massyas with the capital Chalcis, between the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon) from 85-40 BC His territories extended on the east towards Damascus, and on the south embraced Panias, and part, at least, of Galilee.

托勒密mennus是国王的itureans （其英国接受了黎巴嫩和平原massyas与资本哈尔基斯之间，黎巴嫩和反黎巴嫩）从85-40年代，他就延长新界东对大马士革，并于南拥抱庞尼亚，和一部分，至少，加利利。

In 312, after being ousted by Antigonus I Monophthalmus and serving Ptolemy, he reconquered Babylon.

后被安提哥那一世驱逐，他于是为托勒密一世效力，于西元前312年夺回巴比伦。

In 301 he helped defeat Antigonus at the Battle of Ipsus and received Syria, later taking southern Syria from Ptolemy.

后来从托勒密手中又夺走叙利亚南部地区。与德米特里一世之女的婚姻破裂。

The story runs as follows: After Ptolemy's defeat of Antiochus III.

故事运行如下：在托勒密的失败安提阿哥三。

The last sentence may be interpreted by the notice of Suidas, who informs us that Apollonius was a contemporary of Eratosthenes, Euphorion and Timarchus, in the time of Ptolemy Euergetes, and that he succeeded Eratosthenes in the headship of the Alexandrian Library.

最后一句，可能被解释由Suidas通知，谁告诉我们，阿波罗纽斯是一个埃拉托塞尼，欧福里翁和Timarchus当代的托勒密Euergetes时间，而且他成功地在亚历山大图书馆校长埃拉托塞尼。

At the forefront of the pioneers in the field was the Greek mathematician and philosopher Claudius Ptolemaeus c.

这一领域的先驱中最早的是希腊数学家和哲学家克劳迪堠勒密(约公元90年～168年)，历史上多称他托勒密。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。