Meaning of Ptolemaic system | Babel Free

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A geocentric model of the solar system, described by the eponymous astronomer.

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“The theories in your books are almost as obsolete as the Ptolemaic System.”

“[T]o Hipparchus we owe that theory of the heavens, commonly called the Ptolemaic system, which, starting from the assumption that the earth was the centre of the universe, attempted to explain the motions of the heavenly bodies by a complex system of supposed eccentrics and epicycles.”

“Singh … criticizes the Ptolemaic system for its "inordinately complex" heaps of epicycles on epicycles, but declares that in some respects it was more accurate than the Copernican system.”

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