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Ptolemaic

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Ptol·e·ma·ic  (tl-mk)
adj.
1. Of or relating to the astronomer Ptolemy.
2. Of or relating to the Ptolemies or to Egypt during their rule.
Ptolemaic [tol-lim-may-ik]
Adjective
relating to Ptolemy, the 2nd-century ad Greek astronomer, or to his belief that the earth was in the centre of the universe
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Adj.1.Ptolemaic - of or relating to the astronomer Ptolemy
2.Ptolemaic - of or relating to the geocentric Ptolemaic system; "in the Ptolemaic system of planetary motion the earth is fixed as the center of the universe with the sun and moon and planets revolving around it"
geocentric - having the earth as the center
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By disproving that law it might have been possible to retain the old conception of the movements of the bodies, but without disproving it, it would seem impossible to continue studying the Ptolemaic worlds.
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Incidentally, new facts were learned about the nature, size, and form of the earth, and the Ptolemaic system went glimmering.
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Geology has initiated us into the secularity of nature, and taught us to disuse our dame-school measures, and exchange our Mosaic and Ptolemaic schemes for her large style.
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