ptolemy is credited with developing the geocentric view.
ptolemy is credited with developing the geocentric view.
who is credited with developing the geocentric view?
ptolemy
aristotle and other like greek thinkers of antiquity, and later the ptolemaic model of the cosmos demonstrated an earth centered universe. this geocentric view was held through the middle ages and was later countered by subsequent astronomers and mathematicians alike, such as nicolaus copernicus and johannes kepler. the tradition of thought which appears in all of these systems of the universe, even with their divergent mechanisms, is the presence of a celestial sphere which contains the fixed stars. ptolemy was influential with his heavily mathematical work, the "almagest", which attempts to explain the peculiarity of stars that the moved. these "wandering stars", planets, moved across the background of fixed stars which were spread along a sphere surrounding encompassing the universe. later on, contemporary astronomers and mathematicians, like copernicus challenged the long-standing view of geocentrism and constructed a sun centered universe, this being known as the heliocentric system. his system still upheld the tradition of a celestial sphere holding the fixed stars. kepler also provided a model of the cosmos in his 1596 book "mysterium cosmopgraphicum" which pictures an image, labelling one celestial sphere, in latin, "sphaera stellar fixar," or a sphere of fixed stars.
fixed stars
prominent cases of modern geocentrism in islam are very isolated. very few individuals promoted a geocentric view of the universe. one of them was ahmed raza khan barelvi, a sunni scholar of indian subcontinent. he rejected the heliocentric model and wrote a book that explains the movement of the sun, moon and other planets around the earth. the grand mufti of saudi arabia from 1993 to 1999, ibn baz also promoted the geocentric view between 1966 and 1985.









































section::::planetariums.
geocentric model