What is common and how are the systems of the world of Aristotle and Ptolemy different?
November 15, 2020 | Education
| The common in the systems of the world of Aristotle and Ptolemy is geocentrism: in the center is the Earth, all the planets and the Sun revolve around it, there is a sphere of fixed stars. Difference: in the system of the world of Aristotle, all bodies move along concentric circles, in the system of the world of Ptolemy – along the epicycles, and the epicycle moves along the deferent.
