- (also
known as geocentrism,
often exemplified specifically by the
Ptolemaic system) is a su****ded
description of the
Universe with
Earth at the center...
- BC by
Ptolemy I
Soter Ptolemaic Kingdom Relating to Ptolemy, 2nd-century AD
geographer and astronomer/astrologer
Ptolemaic system, a
geocentric model of...
-
understood figure frequently mistaken as one of the
Ptolemaic rulers of Egypt. The
Ptolemaic system drew on many
previous theories that
viewed Earth as...
- In the Hipparchian,
Ptolemaic, and
Copernican systems of astronomy, the
epicycle (from
Ancient Gr**** ἐπίκυκλος (epí****los) 'upon the circle', meaning...
-
mathematical benefits of the
Copernican system with the
philosophical and "physical"
benefits of the
Ptolemaic system. The
model may have been
inspired by...
-
multiple senses, in his
System of the World,: p.24 but also in the
sense of the
Ptolemaic system versus the
Copernican system: 450 of the
relation of...
- The
Ptolemaic Kingdom (/ˌtɒlɪˈmeɪ.ɪk/; Koinē Gr****: Πτολεμαϊκὴ βασιλεία, romanized: Ptolemaïkḕ basileía) or
Ptolemaic Empire was an
Ancient Gr**** polity...
-
geocentric model described in Ptolemy's Almagest. The
Ptolemaic system was a
sophisticated astronomical system that
managed to
calculate the
positions for the...
-
mathematical benefits of the
Copernican system with the "physical benefits" of the
Ptolemaic system. This was one of the
systems people believed in when they did...
-
Copernican system with the
traditional Ptolemaic system. It was
translated into
Latin as
Systema cosmi**** (Cosmic
System) in 1635 by
Matthias Bernegger. The...
