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The noun PTOLEMY has 2 senses: 1. Alexandrian astronomer who proposed a geocentric system of astronomy that was undisputed until Copernicus (2nd century AD) 2. an ancient dynasty of Macedonian kings who ruled Egypt from 323 BC to 30 BC; founded by Ptolemy I and ended with Cleopatra. Familiarity information: PTOLEMY used as a noun is rare.
Claudius Ptolemy, an Egyptian geographer, mathematician, and astronomer, is credited with the Ptolemaic Model of the solar system. His model posited not only that the Earth was the center of the entire universe and assumed that the planets all moved in epicycles--small circles--that also moved alongâ¦.