Ptolemy Sucks Ass Essay, Research Paper

1. Ptolemy established his own latitude and longitude places in the Roman

Empire. Since he was wrong by about 30 % he estimated the earth to be one

third smaller than it actually is. Even though a fellow by the name of

Eratosthenes had much better arithmetic than Ptolemy, 13 centuries later,

Columbus sailed out and took into consideration that the world was much

smaller than it actually is, thus taking into considration of Ptolemy rather than

Eratosthenes.

1000 years after the Roman Emopire, development of geographic findings

was quite slow. Still, they still had undiscovered lands and oceans and that

sustained the attention of some scholars.

The ancient Greeks had said that the Earth?s equalatorial zone was so hot that

human life was impossible there and the sun had scorched black the skins of

people living near. But the Arabs sailed acroos the equater and proved that

equatorial regions were habitable. Arab geographers made interpretations of

the evolution of mountain ranges and the depositon of sediments and analized

the atmospheric processes that produce particular weather patterns.