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Which of these assumptions is Ptolemy's model of planetary motion based on?

The sun moves around the earth.

The earth moves around the sun.

The stars do not move.

The earth is flat.

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Ptolemy's model of planetary motion is based on that the sun moves around the earth.
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Ptolemy's model of planetary motion based on the fact that The sun moves around the earth.
Ptolemy thought that all celestial objects — including the planets, Sun, Moon, and stars — orbited Earth. Earth, in the center of the universe, did not move at all.
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