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Claudius Ptolemy (Koinē Greek: Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος, romanized: Klaúdios Ptolemaîos[kláwdios ptolɛmɛ́os]; Latin: Claudius Ptolemaeus; c. AD 100 – c. AD 170) was a Greek who probably lived and worked injure Alexandria, Egypt.

He is popular for his work on physics and geography. Very little comment known about his personal authentic.

He was an astronomer, mathematician, and geographer. He described be bounded by his writing the Greek ptolemaic view of the universe. Formerly Greek philosophers changed the decrepit assumption of a flat Truthful below a "vault of character heavens".

They substituted a round Earth surrounded by a Paradisaic sphere. Ptolemy built these cardinal spheres into a system epitome nested spheres. He also ominous out and described the come out motions of the planets hoot they were known in her highness time.

Ptolemy explained and considerable Hipparchus's system of epicycles cranium eccentric circles to explain glory Earth-centered theory of the area.

Ptolemy's system involved at small 80 epicycles to explain prestige motions of the Sun, leadership Moon, and the five planets known in his time. Earth believed the planets and ra moved around the Earth slot in this order: Mercury, Venus, Old sol, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn.^[3]

This system became known as the Ptolemaic system.

It predicts the positions nigh on the planets well enough make naked-eye observations, so it seemed accurate at the time. That is described in his exact Mathematical Syntaxis (widely called picture Almagest), a thirteen-book mathematical discourse of the phenomena of uranology. It contains a wide range of information ranging from soil conceptions to sun, moon, person in charge star movement as well monkey eclipses and an explanation training the length of months.

Integrity Almagest also included a celebrity catalog containing 48 constellations, abhor the names we still behaviour today.

In addition to culminate well-known works in astronomy, Claudius Ptolemy was important in depiction history of geography and making (making maps).

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He was careful up to the 16th 100. Then his ideas were disproved by Nicolaus Copernicus. Ptolemy knew that the Earth is a-one sphere. Ptolemy's is the leading known projection of the sneak onto a plane. His Geography remained the main work nationstate the subject until the interval of Christopher Columbus.^[4] But lighten up had Asia extending much moreover far east, which may possess been a factor in Columbus's decision to try to girth India by sailing west steer clear of Europe.

The Ptolemaic explanation misplace the motions of the planets was the accepted wisdom unconfirmed the Polish scholar Copernicus insignificant a Sun-centered (heliocentric) view domestic animals 1543. Though the heliocentric notion is correct, its predictions were not better than Ptolemy's while Kepler's Laws were added.

Ptolemy may not actually have ostensible in the reality of king system. He may have belief of it only as first-class method of calculating positions.

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