The mathematicians’ sky: From Eudoxus to Ptolemy Around 350 BC ... Aristotle, in particular, championed the idea of a geocentric universe, a belief that stood unchallenged for thousands of years. Then ...
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In their attempt to reconcile their geocentric models with their empirical observations, they proposed the idea of epicycles: complex orbits that were neither circular nor elliptical, with planets ...