CIVILIZATION
ROMAN
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Question
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He studied the sky and mapped over 1, 000 different stars.
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Ptolemy
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Theodosius
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Justinian
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Spartacus
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -170. Claudius Ptolemy wrote the Almagest, the work that defined astronomy for over 1, 000 years. The Almagest included a catalogue of over a thousand stars, recording their positions, constellations, and relative brightnesses; and a mathematical model predicting the movements of the planets.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ptolemy made contributions to astronomy, mathematics, geography, musical theory, and optics. He compiled a star catalog and the earliest surviving table of a trigonometric function and established mathematically that an object and its mirror image must make equal angles to a mirror.
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