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
geocentric
Claudius Ptolemy synthesized and extended Hipparchus' system of epicycles and encentric circles to ezplain his geocentric theory off the solar system.
Um... Ptolemy. Hence the name (the adjectival form is usually spelled "Ptolemaic", though). You're more generous than I am if you call him a "scientist," though.
Cleopatra's brother were Ptolemy XIII and Ptolemy XIV.
ptolemy was a person
Nicolaus Copernicus disagreed with his theory, Copernicus belived that Ptolemy's view was to complicated.
ptolemy formulated the geocentric theory...
Because he wanted to.
Claudius Ptolemy disproved geocentric theory.
Ptolemy
geocentric
Ptolemy (of Athens)
mbch
1,500 years
in the year 2018
No. The Big Bang theory came a lot later.
No. Ptolemy had no knowledge of Saturn's rings; prior to the invention of the telescope, the rings of Saturn were unknown.