Sentence examples for the ptolemy from inspiring English sources
proper noun
Of Greek origin, borne by historical persons in ancient Egypt.
COSAC and the PTOLEMY instrument on Philae could measure this enhancement.
The moment was the highlight of the year for Grady, who works on the Ptolemy instrument onboard.
Professor Ian Wright, principal investigator on the Ptolemy instrument on the Philae lander, said: "It's a bit like watching the boxed set of a TV series and knowing you've only got one episode to go.
The scientists are saying which bit do we want to land on, and the engineers are saying, blimey, how will its shape affect the gravitational field?" said Simeon Barber, project manager for the Ptolemy instrument at the Open University.
"I know it seems like a difficult fit, culturally, because we are, after all, the nerds that we are," Gregory Smirin, the company's chief operating officer, said when he stopped by the Ptolemy Room to speak with me.
Wright, who is Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Open University, is responsible for the Ptolemy instrument, one of eleven devices installed on the lander to analyse the environment.
The Ptolemies were insatiable in their pursuit of books.
After Alexander the Great's conquest, the Ptolemies held it.
Aristobulus lived at Alexandria in Egypt, under the Ptolemies.
In the time of the Ptolemies, Setje was named Arsinoe after the wife of Ptolemy II Philadelphus.
Full fathom five the Ptolemies lie: those are worn sockets that were their eyes.
