Like most astronomers before him, Ptolemy believed the Sun, Moon, and other planets circled the Earth. He thought that each space body moved in a small circle (an epicycle) that was itself orbiting Earth.
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Ptolemy
//ˈtɑləmi//
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Ancient Greek
1 entries- Πτολεμαῖος name (name of Greek origin)
Arabic
1 entries- بَطُلِيمُوس name (name of Greek origin)
Armenian
1 entries- Պտղոմեոս name (name of Greek origin)
Azerbaijani
3 entries- Bətləmius name (name of Greek origin)
- Ptolemey name (name of Greek origin)
- بطلمیوس name (name of Greek origin)
Bulgarian
1 entries- Птолемей name (name of Greek origin)
Catalan
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Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 托勒密 name (name of Greek origin)
Coptic
1 entries- ⲡⲧⲟⲗⲉⲙⲁⲓⲟⲥ name (name of Greek origin)
Czech
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Danish
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Estonian
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Finnish
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French
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Georgian
1 entries- პტოლემე name (name of Greek origin)
German
2 entries- Ptolemaios name (name of Greek origin)
- Ptolemäus name (name of Greek origin)
Greek
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Hebrew
1 entries- תּלמי name (name of Greek origin)
Hindi
1 entries- तुरमय name (name of Greek origin)
Italian
1 entries- Tolomeo name (name of Greek origin)
Japanese
1 entries- プトレマイオス name (name of Greek origin)
Korean
1 entries- 프톨레마이오스 name (name of Greek origin)
Latin
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Latvian
1 entries- Ptolemajs name (name of Greek origin)
Lithuanian
1 entries- Ptolemėjus name (name of Greek origin)
Macedonian
1 entries- Птоломеј name (name of Greek origin)
Old Armenian
1 entries- Պտղոմէոս name (name of Greek origin)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- بطلمیوس name (name of Greek origin)
Persian
1 entries- بطلمیوس name (name of Greek origin)
Polish
1 entries- Ptolemeusz name (name of Greek origin)
Portuguese
2 entries- Ptolemeu name (name of Greek origin)
- Ptolomeu name (name of Greek origin)
Romanian
1 entries- Ptolemeu name (name of Greek origin)
Russian
1 entries- Птолеме́й name (name of Greek origin)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- Ptolomaidh name (name of Greek origin)
Spanish
2 entries- Ptolomeo name (name of Greek origin)
- Tolomeo name (name of Greek origin)
Swedish
1 entries- Ptolemaios name (name of Greek origin)
Turkish
1 entries- Batlamyus name (name of Greek origin)
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In Copernicus' time most astronomers believed the theory the Greek astronomer Ptolemy had developed more than 1,000 years earlier. Ptolemy said the Earth was the center of the universe and was motionless. He believed all other heavenly bodies moved in complicated patterns around the Earth.
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The heliocentric view of the world, in which the Sun is at the centre of the universe, is also described as the Copernican system. It represents a step forward from the geocentric view of Ptolemy.
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Ptolemy was a Greek astronomer.
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