(n) the chief port of Egypt; located on the western edge of the Nile delta on the Mediterranean Sea; founded by Alexander the Great; the capital of ancient Egypt, Syn. El Iskandriyah
(n) Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century), Syn. Hero of Alexandria, Heron
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[托勒密, Tuō lè mìㄊㄨㄛ ㄌㄜˋ ㄇㄧˋ] Ptolemy, kings of Egypt after the partition of Alexander the Great's Empire in 305 BC; Ptolemy or Claudius Ptolemaeus (c. 90-c. 168), Alexandrian Greek astronomer, mathematician and geographer, author of the Almagest 天文學大成|天文学大成, See Also: 天文學大成, 天文学大成#120850
[托勒玫, Tuō lè méiㄊㄨㄛ ㄌㄜˋ ㄇㄟˊ] Ptolemy or Claudius Ptolemaeus (c. 90-c. 168), Alexandrian Greek astronomer, mathematician and geographer, author of the Almagest 天文學大成|天文学大成; also written 托勒密, See Also: 天文學大成, 天文学大成, 托勒密