How did that ancient civilization, with no knowledge of how to even build telescopes, acquire such an accurate understanding of celestial motions? - Quora
Microcosm of the Ancient World
Ptolemy's treatise on the meteoroscope recovered | Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Astronomy | Orion Telescopes & Binoculars
Instruments and practices in Ptolemaic astronomy
Ptolemaic armillary sphere | Science Museum Group Collection