PTOLEMY

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 le m y w a s a G re e k Astronomer,
-Claudius Pto n d a M athematician.
p h e r, P o e t a
Astrologer,Geogra y p t in 100 AD.
-He w as b o rn in E g
as at th e c en tre of the solar
Earth w
-Suggested that the
system.
v e lo p ed th e G e o c e ntric model.
And he de

WHo is
ptolemy ?
 -Geocentric means Earth at the centre of
the Solar system
“Geo” means Earth while “Centric” means
centrethat planets move on
-He argued
two sets of circles, a deferent
and an epicycle that made the
geocentric model tangible for
over 14 centuries.
Using epicycles and deferent
circle, It placed earth at the
WHAT
IS GEOCENTRIC
centre of the solar system.
MODEL???
MOVEMENT OF THE
GEOCENTRIC MODEL
 -His ideas were accepted for
- Even though it has now
centuries until the Polish
been proven that the sun
astronomer, Nicholas
is at the centre of the solar
Copernicus, proposed in 1543
system, his findings were
that the Sun, rather than the
used for over than 1500
Earth, belonged in the center.
years.
The heliocentric of the model.
funfact
- Ptolemy shared his model in an important
manuscript called ‘Almagest’ which is the only
surviving ancient text on astronomy.
The Almagest is a book about the motion of the
planets and the position of the stars written about
AD 150 by Ptolemy.

It was the main astronomical manual for

Islamic and European astronomers until the
days of Kepler and Galileo around the turn of
the 16th to the 17th century .
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