Hundreds of years after the first try, we can finally read a Ptolemy text
This is about his astronomical Meteoroscope instrument, which is not that interesting.
Most of his astronomical texts are horrible and set back the advance of science only similar to Aristoteles' completely wrong mechanics. His geographical texts also (mostly stolen and wrong), only his mathematical texts are worthwhile.<p>His german wikipedia is esp. damning: <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudius_Ptolem%C3%A4us#Kritik" rel="nofollow">https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudius_Ptolem%C3%A4us#Kritik</a>