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Lived: c. 90 - c. 168
Wrote several scientific treatises, "Almagest", "Geography", and "Tetrabiblios" (sometimes "Apotelesmatika"). Estimated the Sun was at an average distance of 1,210 Earth radii.
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He lived in the city of Alexandria in the Roman province of Egypt, under the rule of the Roman Empire, and had a Latin name, which several historians have taken to imply he was also a Roman citizen.
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