Because he wanted to.
Nicolaus Copernicus disagreed with his theory, Copernicus belived that Ptolemy's view was to complicated.
ptolemy formulated the geocentric theory...
Claudius Ptolemy disproved geocentric theory.
Ptolemy
geocentric
Ptolemy (of Athens)
mbch
1,500 years
No. Ptolemy had no knowledge of Saturn's rings; prior to the invention of the telescope, the rings of Saturn were unknown.
No. The Big Bang theory came a lot later.
in the year 2018
The idea of elliptical orbits in the geocentric theory was introduced by the ancient Greek astronomer Claudius Ptolemy, who proposed a complex system of epicycles and deferents to explain the observed motion of celestial bodies.