托勒密

Tuōlèmì

noun #29,846

Meanings

1 Ptolemy (name)
2 Ptolemy or Claudius Ptolemaeus (c. 90–168 AD), Greek astronomer, mathematician and geographer
3 the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt

Characters

to entrust; phonetic

to restrain; phonetic

secret; close; phonetic

Phonetic transliteration of 'Ptolemy'.

Examples

托勒密认为地球是宇宙的中心。

Tuōlèmì rènwéi dìqiú shì yǔzhòu de zhōngxīn.

Ptolemy believed that the Earth was the center of the universe.

托勒密体系统治了西方天文学一千多年。

Tuōlèmì tǐxì tǒngzhì le xīfāng tiānwénxué yīqiān duō nián.

The Ptolemaic system dominated Western astronomy for over a thousand years.

Tips

history

Ptolemy's geocentric model was enshrined in his work 天文學大成 (Almagest) and remained the dominant astronomical view until Copernicus in the 16th century.

Stroke Order

托 tuō

勒 lè

密 mì