USA HISTORY

THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774

THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Ptolemy’s theory that the Earth is the center of the universe and was taught by the Catholic Church is known as the ____
A
Geocentric Theory
B
Heliocentric Theory
C
The Law of the Pendulum
D
Flat Earth Theory
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Ptolemaic system, also called geocentric system or geocentric model, mathematical model of the universe formulated by the Alexandrian astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy about 150 CE and recorded by him in his Almagest and Planetary Hypotheses.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ptolemy placed the Earth at the centre of his geocentric model. Using the data he had, Ptolemy thought that the universe was a set of nested spheres surrounding the Earth. He believed that the Moon was orbiting on a sphere closest to the Earth, followed by Mercury, then Venus and then the Sun.

Detailed explanation-3: -An astronomer named Eudoxus created the first model of a geocentric universe around 380 B.C. Eudoxus designed his model of the universe as a series of cosmic spheres containing the stars, the sun, and the moon all built around the Earth at its center.

Detailed explanation-4: -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).

Detailed explanation-5: -The Ptolemaic model of the universe, or the Ptolemy model of the solar system was a geocentric model that had the planets orbiting the Sun in circular orbits with epicycles.

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