One of them was Claudius Ptolemy. He made a geocentric model and called it Plotemy's system, it lasted 13 centuries.
The name Maniolas was the pre-Hispanic name of the islands of the Philippines, given by Claudius Plotemy, as a Greek-Roman citizen of Egypt who wrote in Greek. He was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology. He lived in Egypt under Roman rule, and is believed to have been born in the town of Ptolemais Hermiou in the Thebaid. Jose Rizal instead of Maniolas, He called the Philippines, Taliwasi.
The Earth does not move. Everything in the sky can be seen to revolve round the Earth every day, approximately. The stars do no move forward and back as they would do if the Earth moved. If it doesn't seem to move, why pretend that it does?
Earths faster motion makes Mars appear to be going backwards, the backwards motion, in fact, is what caused retrograde motion. --Ptloemy used Epicycles to explain how geocentrical models worked.