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168 AD
Major worksAlmagest, Geography, Tetrabiblos, Optics
The Greek astronomer, mathematician, and geographer of Alexandria whose Almagest set out the Earth-centered model of the heavens that dominated science for over a thousand years. His systematic works on astronomy and geography were so authoritative that they governed the Western and Islamic understanding of the cosmos until Copernicus finally displaced them.
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Episodes and essays that touch on Ptolemy.
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