Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer who flourished in Alexandria. He is credited with the “Ptolemaic system,” a geocentric view of the universe that would dominate scientific thinking for 13 centuries, until Copernicus (1473 - 1573) put forth his heliocentric theory of the universe.
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