Meanings of ptolemaic system in английском

The ptolemaic system of astronomy, numberless other systems and theories of scientific and philosophical explanation are discarded, known to be false and worthless.

The theories in your books are almost as obsolete as the Ptolemaic System.

The Ptolemaic system gave way to Tycho Brahe, and his to that of Copernicus.

He is a firm believer in the Ptolemaic system.

The Ptolemaic system is, therefore, essentially a geocentric system.

So, unlike Ferdinando, we can't see the motions of the stars and planets predicted by the Aristotelian- Ptolemaic system.

This Ptolemaic system was not overthrown until the grand discovery of Copernicus in the sixteenth century of our era.

Incidentally, new facts were learned about the nature, size, and form of the earth, and the Ptolemaic system went glimmering.

They had attempted to show that the Ptolemaic system was as much a part of Christianity as the resurrection of the dead.

Copernicus was an astronomer, but the discovery of his system is due chiefly to his study of the complications of the Ptolemaic system.

The Ptolemaic system of astronomy and numberless other systems and theories of scientific and philosophical explanation are discarded, known to be false and worthless.

"She knew no more of the points of difference," he said, "than of the difference between the Copernican and Ptolemaic systems."