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1. Claudius Ptolemy

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   Claudius Ptolemaeus (c. 100 – c. 170 CE), commonly known as Ptolemy, was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and music theorist who lived and worked in Alexandria, Roman Egypt. He is credited with developing the most detailed and mathematically sophisticated version of the geocentric model of the universe, which remained the dominant cosmological paradigm for more than fourteen centuries. Ptolemy’s synthesis of astronomical observation, geometric modeling, and philosophical necessity p…