Ptolemy
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
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His model placed Earth at the center of the cosmos — and for 1,400 years, it worked well enough that no one in three civilizations could improve on it.
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Claudius Ptolemy was a Greco-Roman mathematician working in the second century AD who wrote roughly a dozen scientific treatises. Three survived to reshape medieval knowledge: the Almagest, his astronomical work that presented the only mathematically rigorous geocentric model of the solar system; the Geography, a systematic treatment of maps and the known world; and the Tetrabiblos, where he tried to reconcile horoscopic astrology with Aristotelian physics. The Catholic Church later promoted his astronomy, and Byzantine and Islamic scholars copied his works through late antiquity and the Middl…
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