Crossword-Solution: PTOLEMAIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ptolemaic | a. | Of or pertaining to Ptolemy, the geographer and astronomer. |
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| Of an Egyptian dynasty. | 1 answer |
| Ancient empire | 16 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with PTOLEMAIC (5)
All this vast scheme had been so riveted into the Ptolemaic view by the use of biblical texts and theological reasonings that the resultant system of the universe was considered impregnable and final.
The church was too much involved in the Ptolemaic system to accept any change and it was not until 1822 that the works of Copernicus were removed from the Index.
The character which the Ptolemaic epoch took on was no doubt due to Babylonian influence, but quite as much to the personal experience of Ptolemy himself as an explorer in the Far East.
THE NEW COSMOLOGY--COPERNICUS TO KEPLER AND GALILEO We have seen that the Ptolemaic astronomy, which was the accepted doctrine throughout the Middle Ages, taught that the earth is round.
What he taught was hardly superior to the astronomy then in vogue, which had been inherited from the Mongols, being nothing more than the old Ptolemaic system, already discarded in Europe.
Quotes with PTOLEMAIC (2)
Mr. Codro's destiny is Ptolemaic; in other words, based on fiction. Ptolemaic says it all; it means above all fixed and unchanging, that is to say different from real life which is by nature changing and temporary. It means: not according to natural truth, but according to man's desire and the pretense inspired by his fear of dying and his desire for permanence.
When Peter renounced the world he grew up in and the people he grew up with, I believe it was exactly as heroic as that of a person who, finding himself prone to violent seasickness, renounces yachting. Hell, Pete was hardly ‘in the world’ in the first place. That was just the problem. He knew more about 13th century Sufi Orders and the Ptolemaic Universe than the rivers and hills and sewers and mills in southwestern Washington.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1954).