that the earth was in the middle of the universe
Ptolemy believes that the earth is the center of the universe.
The Church did not have a teaching that the Earth was flat. There may have been a few people in the Church who believed that, but the prevailing view was that the Earth was spherical. The most respected source on astronomy in the Middle Ages was Ptolemy, and his Geometry contained arguments that the Earth was spherical and showed its size. Ptolemy did believe that the Earth was the center of the skies and the sun went around it; his argument was that if the sun was at the center, the Earth would have to spin at a thousand miles per hour, and the winds would knock everything down.
i think he was tring to figure out how the universe was shaped. he probably thought the earth was in the middle of everything because we could see the sun and the moon from earth, but the other planets only at certin points each year
He thought the earth was flat and it is round
They actually didn't. Flat Earth is a myth. The spherical Earth has been a scientifically established fact since long before Ptolemy.
a flat Earth.
that the earth was in the middle of the universe
The majority of the members of the Flat Earth Society do not believe the Earth is flat. They are members because it's a counter-culture group which some people find interesting.Those who think the Earth is flat are usually motivated by religious literalism.
Part of why the Copernican revolution was so important is because it changed how people viewed the word. Before Copernicus, they believed in Ptolemy, who thought that the earth was flat.
Ptolemy believed that the Earth was the center of our universe
Flat earth believers are almost exclusively motivated by religion or by conspiracy theory beliefs.
Ptolemy believes that the earth is the center of the universe.
Because the Earth has been directly observed, so we know it's not flat.
yes
Earth was flat
everyone thought the earth was flat