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Nicolaus Copernicus Biography: Facts & Discoveries - Space.com


Nicolaus Copernicus Biography: Facts & Discoveries
Space.com
Astronomers called this retrograde motion. To account for it, the current model, based on the Greek astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy's view, incorporated a number of circles within circles — epicycles — inside of a planet's path.

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Lynch: Constellations tangle up with a hair-raising tale - Times Record News


Lynch: Constellations tangle up with a hair-raising tale
Times Record News
When the hair heist was discovered, Ptolemy and Bernices were ready to roll some heads, literally! All of the temple priests were within hours of execution when a traveling group of Greek consulting astronomers literally saved their necks.

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Starwatch: A hairstyle for the heavens - Post-Bulletin


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Starwatch: A hairstyle for the heavens
Post-Bulletin
When the hair heist was discovered, a traveling group of Greek consulting astronomers stopped by and convinced Ptolemy and Bernices to go out with them that night to see a brand new, pale cluster of light in the sky. “Look!” the astronomers exclaimed.

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Waiting for Copernicus - Huffington Post


Waiting for Copernicus
Huffington Post
Remember: Ptolemy's system, with the earth at the center of all things, reigned for 1300 years even as it grew inordinately complex to explain new astronomical observations. A century after the publication of the great Pole's theory of heliocentrism, ...

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Science and the Ups and Downs of Christ's Ascension - Huffington Post (blog)


Science and the Ups and Downs of Christ's Ascension
Huffington Post (blog)
This idea of heaven above was easily incorporated into the later Ptolemaic system of the universe, named after Claudius Ptolemy (c. CE 90-168). According to this revised view, the universe was a set of nested spheres along which the planets rotated ...

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