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.
geocentric
Claudius Ptolemy synthesized and extended Hipparchus' system of epicycles and encentric circles to ezplain his geocentric theory off the solar system.
because he was a major scientist that now 3 countries use today because of his findings.
James Watson
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
Ptolemy
Aristotle, the philosopher and scientist, was most responsible for developing the theory of spontaneous generation. The person perhaps most associated with the theory, however, is Louis Pasteur, who actually disproved the theory.
Louis Pasteur
A German scientist Alfred Wegener first proposed the idea of Continental Drift.
There is no legitimate scientist responsible for promoting the flat earth theory. The idea of a flat earth has been widely discredited by centuries of scientific evidence and research.
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.
geocentric
Ptolemy (of Athens)
Nicolaus Copernicus