Hypotheseis ton planomenon
work by Ptolemy
Also known as: “Planetary Hypotheses”
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discussed in biography
- In Ptolemy: Astronomer
…much as a later treatise, Hypotheseis tōn planōmenōn (Planetary Hypotheses). In this work he proposed what is now called the Ptolemaic system—a unified system in which each heavenly body is attached to its own sphere and the set of spheres nested so that it extends without gaps from Earth to…
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history of astronomy
- In astronomy: Ptolemy
…a speculative cosmological work, the Hypotheseis ton planomenon (Planetary Hypotheses), in which he took the eccentric-and-epicycle astronomy of the Almagest as physically true. However, to give a satisfactory image of the cosmos, he needed the nested-spheres cosmology of Eudoxus. The eccentrics and epicycles were regarded as the equator circles of…
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