GK
SOLAR SYSTEM
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Question
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The Moon, Earth planets and stars revolved around Sun
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The Moon, Sun planets and stars revolved around Earth
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Earth and planets are spherical
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planet’s rotation caused by Earth rotation
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Detailed explanation-1: -Based on observations he made with his naked eye, Ptolemy saw the Universe as a set of nested, transparent spheres, with Earth in the center. He posited that the Moon, Mercury, Venus, and the Sun all revolved around Earth.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Ptolemaic system was a geocentric system that postulated that the apparently irregular paths of the Sun, Moon, and planets were actually a combination of several regular circular motions seen in perspective from a stationary Earth.
Detailed explanation-3: -geocentric model, any theory of the structure of the solar system (or the universe) in which Earth is assumed to be at the centre of it all. The most highly developed geocentric model was that of Ptolemy of Alexandria (2nd century ce).