Ptolemaic system

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释义与例句

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    A geocentric model of the solar system, described by the eponymous astronomer.

    天文

    Singh … criticizes the Ptolemaic system for its "inordinately complex" heaps of epicycles on epicycles, but declares that in some respects it was more accurate than the Copernican system.

词源

After Greek-Roman astronomer Claudius Ptolemy (c. 90 - c. 168 AD), who explained the theory in an influential work.

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