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Geocentric Model

Disproved · 150

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Disproved
Year
150

Summary

Earth at rest in the centre, everything else on nested spheres. It survived fourteen centuries because it worked: with enough epicycles Ptolemy's system predicted planetary positions to within a degree.

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