Question

No ano 142 d.C. (depois de Cristo), na Grécia, o astrônomo Cláudio Ptolomeu propôs uma teoria que demonstrava que a Terra estava parada e o Sol, a Lua e os outros planetas giravam ao seu redor. Que nome recebeu essa teoria?

Answer 1

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Claudius Ptolemy was an astronomer who wrote the only surviving ancient treatise on astronomy. He proposed his famous theory on the Almagest. In this model, the Earth was on the center, and the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and the stars (in that order) were rotating around the Earth.

This famous theory is called the Geocentric Theory (Teoria Geocêntrica in Portuguese).