UNIVERSE
SPACE EXPLORATION
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Ptolemy and Copernicus
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Aristotle and Galileo
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Ptolemy and Aristotle
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Copericus and Galileo
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the 4th century BC, two influential Greek philosophers, Plato and his student Aristotle, wrote works based on the geocentric model. According to Plato, the Earth was a sphere, stationary at the center of the universe.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ptolemy accepted Aristotle’s idea that the Sun and the planets revolve around a spherical Earth, a geocentric view.
Detailed explanation-3: -The most important feature of Ptolemy’s model was that the Earth was at the centre – the geocentric model of the universe.
Detailed explanation-4: -Aristotle, who lived from 384 to 322 BC, believed the Earth was round. He thought Earth was the center of the universe and that the Sun, Moon, planets, and all the fixed stars revolved around it.