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What did Ptolemy think of the solar system?
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?
what evidence did ptolemy have for the solar system
How did Ptolemy discover the solar system?
circles
What was the main contribution of Ptolemy?
The main contribution for which Ptolemy is famous is his discovery that the earth revolved around the sun. This was known as the heliocentric theory (and it competed with Catholic Church teaching of the time, which held that the earth was the center of the solar system or geocentric).
Of who ideas of the solar system are largely acepted today?
Ptolemy
What did ptolemy think about your solar system?
E thought it was weird
Who first said that earth is the center of our solar system?
Ptolemy.
What did Ptolemy do that was a mistake?
He thought the Earth was the center of the Solar System.
How is Copernicus description of the system of planets different from Ptolemy description?
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).
How did Ptolemy's work change our understanding or the solar system and astronomy?
because
What was Ptolemy contribution to science?
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.
Whose geocentric model of the solar system was accepted for 1400?
Claudius Ptolemy
