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The Ptolemaic System: A Detailed Synopsis, John Cramer Dr. Apr 2015

The Ptolemaic System: A Detailed Synopsis, John Cramer Dr.

Oglethorpe Journal of Undergraduate Research

The Ptolemaic System, constructed by Claudius Ptolemeus (the Latin form of his name), was the most influential of all Earth centered cosmological systems. His ingenious and creative work is primarily recorded in his book The Mathematical Systematic Treatise which the Arabs characterized as “the greatest” and, in so doing, gave the book its most used name, Almagest.