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The heaven is spherical in shape, and moves as a sphere the earth too is sensibly spherical in shape, when taken as a whole in position it lies in the middle of the heavens very much like its center in size and distance it has the ratio of a point to the sphere of the fixed stars and it has no motion from place to place.

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Ptolemy
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Claudius Ptolemaeus
Claudius Ptolemeus
Claudius Ptolemy
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2nd cent. -- Translations into Welsh Ptolemy
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