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c. A.D. 100 – c. 170
Claudius Ptolemy
Worth knowing
- Worked at Alexandria. The Almagest set out an earth-centred model of the heavens with enough mathematics behind it to predict where the planets would actually be.
- It was the standard astronomical work in Greek, Arabic and Latin for roughly fourteen hundred years.
- Being wrong at the centre did not stop it being right about most of the sky, which is a useful thing to sit with.
The book
Who else was alive
Claudius Ptolemy against everyone else in the game.