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Ptolemaic system   /tˌɑləmˈeɪɪk sˈɪstəm/   Listen
Ptolemaic system

noun
1.
(astronomy) Ptolemy's model of the universe with the Earth at the center.





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"Ptolemaic system" Quotes from Famous Books



... masses to a distance, according to their own theory, of between 200,000 and 300,000 miles; and this through regions, the nature of which is wholly unknown. This hypothesis cannot be maintained according to the Ptolemaic system; indeed, it is in ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 • Various
... astronomer, and geographer, who gave his name to the Ptolemaic system of the heavens, flourished in the latter half of the second century. His chief works are the {Megale Suntaxis tes Astronomias} in thirteen books, known to the Middle Ages in its Arabian translation under the title of the /Almagest/, and the {Geographike ...
— Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology • J. W. Mackail


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