Ptolemy (jan 1, 90 – jan 1, 168)
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Roman, ethnically Greek or Hellenized Egyptian.Claudius Ptolemy was a 2nd-century Greek mathematician, astronomer, and geographer famous for his controversial geocentric theory of the universe. 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. (Wikipedia, 2023)
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jan 1, 90
jan 1, 168
~ 78 years