The real Claudius Ptolemy

The russian school of New Chronology has managed to show the true and modern identities of many of the « ancient » characters.

Plato is Gémiste Plethon (1355-1452), a byzantine scholar, known to have stood for the works of Plato, and written « Laws » , a book by the same name of an ancient work of Plato.

Aristotle is Gennade Scholarius (1400-1473). This Scholarius is supposed to have been kept in charge by Mehmet II after his conquest of Constantinople in 1453.  Why would a muslim ruler would care about the name of the orthodox patriarch ? The ottoman empire is depicted on the maps only at the times of Mehmet III near 1600, so in my own opinion, Scholarius must have really lived in these times. Mehmet III is the author of the Koran and the latest of the four « czars » found by Fomenko to have incarnated the fabricated Ivan the Terrible. He is known in Russia as Simeon Beckboulatovitch.

Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) is the old Vitruvius. They wrote the exact same book « The ten books on architecture », with the same title and content !

Copernicus is Aristarchus and Tycho Brahe Hipparchus.

An important identification has note been made. It is the person hidden behind Claudius Ptolemy. This is quite easy, as he shares the very same name. His name is Claudio Tolomei, born in Asciano in 1492 and dead in 1556 in Rome. In italian, the old Ptolemy is called Claudio Tolomeo !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_Tolomei

In the middle ages, Ptolemy is always depicted as a bearded man, as Claudio Tolomei.

the old Ptolemy, in medieval dressing !

He was known as a multifaceted intellectual, gifted with all the talents, but he is not known as an astronomer and a geographer. This is quite curious as he lived precisely at the times when the first atlas by Ptolemy was published in France, in the beginning of 1525, from the « old » treatises (which are now all lost) by the « old » Ptolemy. The style of the maps is typically just a bit more crude than the little later maps by Abraham Ortelius and Oronce Fine. One can see here that Oronce Fine is placed among the « ancient » Ptolemy, Strabo and Pomponius Mela as the creators of geography in this map dated 1551:

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458817z/

The tribes mentioned by the « old » Herodotus are mentioned on this very same map : Guaramantes, Lotophages (Lotus eaters) for example. Hyperborea is a now lost archipelago at the north pole (quite as Herodotus described it).

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Tolomei

The late Giovanni Battista Tolomei is called in the legend of the picture « Ptolemaius ».

The Tolomei family is said to have claimed to come from the old Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt. This sounds quite ridiculous if this family lived in the Nile delta in the 4th century. But Egypt meant the old localisation of the empire : near Constantinople. Alexandria is probably Andrinopolis.

It is a known fact that in the middle of the 15th century, Constantinople was conquered and that many byzantine families came to live in Tuscany, notably in Florence were the Medici ruled.

This is not exactly true : Constantinople would be conquered much later as we said, around 1600. The byzantine that came to live in Florence were not the remnants of the old rulers of Byzantium. They colonised the west. Fomenko proved the russian origin of the Etruscans and their identification with Tuscany in the 15th century. Curiously he still said that Byzantium was conquered in 1453, and did not make the two elements in sync. Another proof of this is this map, which he did not display. One can see the two words Tuscia and Etruria in the same picture. And Florence as the capital. We wan see the Etruscans towns of Veii and Care in the Tarquinii area too. At the right, we see the tribes of the Umbrii, the Sabinii and the Latii.

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b5963870n/f1.item.r=thusciae.zoom

There is no year and no author upon this map. But the style is the same as the 17th century maps. And Florence, Sienna are there too.

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84947162/ by Antonio de Salamanca, 16th century.

Etruria is not mentioned, but the neighbouring people at the right are called Umbria, Sabinae and Latii. Rome is at the frontier between the Latii and Tusciae. It is already a big city.

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b53042014b/f1.item.r=thusciae.zoom

by Girolamo Bellarmato, 1560

same people at the frontiers. Notice the Lucus Etruriae, near the Vulsinus lacus in the south.

Maybe the family that ruled Byzantium (but this is a false and late name. The name of the country must have been Egypt) in the beginning of the 15th century was not Palaeologus, but Tolomeo.

 

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10722980m/

Here is the greek text of one of the main works by Ptolemy, Cosmographia.The document is said to be from the end of the 15th century. Nowhere it is said to have been compiled « according to the ancient works of Ptolemy ». It can be assumed this is an original.

Ptolemy is said to have lived between 90 and 168, at the times of roman hegemony. But the geography is closer to Herodotus (5th century BC). There are seleucids strategies all across Cappadocia. The Seleucid empire is said to have disappeared in 64 BC. (But the Seldjukid empire is alive and well in the 15th century. As we said, there is no Ottoman empire before 1600.)

Italy, Tusques, Samnites, Latins, and even Roma are mentioned. But not the « roman empire ».

 

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b53040746f/f1.item.r=ptol%C3%A9m%C3%A9e.zoom

Here is a map by Ptolemy. We can find Lotharingia, a carolingian kingdom. This is at odds with the date of the map, published in 1541, too. Russia is an area at the east of Poland.

A little later map by Gerard de Jode mentions the « Francie orientale », another carolingian kingdom.

There are anomalies regarding the history of astronomy too. After Ptolemy in the 2d century, we have to wait the 16th century to have some new descriptions of constellations.

It is not only Ptolemy that should find his real place in history. The New Testament codes for constellations in the sky. We find the Dove, discovered by Bayer, and Coma berenices, described by Tycho Brahe (16th century).