Ask not what Ptolemy thinks of his solar system, but what his solar system thinks of Ptolemy.
what evidence did ptolemy have for the solar system
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Aristotle first thought that the Earth was the center of the solar system. Ptolemy was the second one to think of the theory.
Ptolemy
Ptolemy.
He thought the Earth was the center of the Solar System.
Ptolemy thought the earth was the center of the solar system (Otherwise known as the Geocentric theory) and Copernicus's idea was that the sun was at the center of the solar system (Heliocentric theroy).
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Ptolemy contributed to science and astronomy by developing the theory of the Earth. He was the first person to view the solar system as a heliocentric system instead of a geocentric system.
Claudius Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy synthesized and extended Hipparchus' system of epicycles and encentric circles to ezplain his geocentric theory off the solar system.