Ptolemaic System

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4575. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

History And Archaeoastronomy, History Of Astronomy

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The geocentric view of the universe as expounded by Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaus, c. AD 100-170, librarian at Alexandria) in the second century AD. According to this view, the Earth lay at the center of the universe and around it, in order of distance, moved the Moon, the planets Mercury and Venus, the Sun, and the planets Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Beyond the outermost planet lay the sphere of the...

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