Which ancient scholar wrote the texts Geography and Almagest as an effort to map the world in a system of degrees that measured distances from the equator?

a. Claudius Ptolemy
b. Nicolaus Copernicus
c. Eratosthenes
d. Gerardus Mercator

a. Claudius Ptolemy

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